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rude
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rude - [WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor design decisions. Opposite: cuspy.

2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal) problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window stack. Compare all-elbows.


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As the editors were at pains to point out, they are not nursery rhymes passing generation by generation from adults to children but rather the children's own rhymes passing secretly amongst themselves, and showing "their pleasure in jibes and spitefulness, in rudery (sometimes unprintable) and lamentation.
A view from the island: Sendak in England by Alderson, Brian / The Horn Book Magazine
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