Mattel IntelliVision II 5872 Manuel d'utilisateur télécharger pdf (Page 222)

Disgusting in design or function; esthetically unappealing. This word

is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the

keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) See [1500]losing,

[1501]cretinous, [1502]bagbiting, [1503]bogus, and [1504]random. The

term [1505]bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so

described; similarly for [1506]cretinous. By contrast, something that

is `losing' or `bagbiting' may be failing to meet objective criteria.

See also [1507]bogus and [1508]random, which have richer and wider

shades of meaning than any of the above.

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blink vi.,n.

To use a navigator or off-line message reader to minimize time spent

on-line to a commercial network service (a necessity in many places

outside the U.S. where the telecoms monopolies charge per-minute for

local calls). This term attained wide use in the UK, but is rare or

unknown in the US.

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