whizzy adj.
(alt. `wizzy') [Sun] Describes a cuspy program; one that is feature-rich and well
presented.
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wibble
[UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant" strip
in "VIZ" comics, spread via "Your Sinclair magazine in the 1980s
and early 1990s"] 1. n.,v. Commonly used to describe chatter,
content-free remarks or other essentially meaningless
contributions to threads in newsgroups. "Oh, rspence is wibbling
again". 2. [UK IRC] An explicit on-line no-op equivalent to humma. 3. One of the preferred metasyntactic variables in
the UK, forming a series with wobble,
wubble, and flob (attributed to the
hilarious historical comedy "Blackadder"). 4. A pronounciation of
the letters "www", as seen in URLs; i.e., www.foo.com may be pronounced "wibble dot foo dot com"
(compare dub dub dub).
The ancestral sense of this word is reported to have been "My
brain is packing it in now. I give up. Tilt! Tilt!
Tilt!"
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WIBNI // n.
[Bell Labs: Wouldn't It Be Nice If] What most requirements
documents and specifications consist entirely of. Compare IWBNI.
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widget n.
1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic
examples (especially database tutorials). Legend has it that the
original widgets were holders for buggy whips. "But suppose the
parts list for a widget has 52 entries...." 2.
[poss. evoking `window gadget'] A user interface object in X graphical user interfaces.