Words We Need
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:35 am
I just noticed that the following was added to the Oxford Dictionary this month:
Been there, done that, T-Shirt acquisition effected, etc.OED wrote:cruft
New words: February 2013
Pronunciation: /krʌft/
Definition of cruft
noun
[mass noun] Computing, informal
badly designed, unnecessarily complicated, or unwanted code or software:
this removes all unnecessary cruft from Word documents saved as HTML
Origin:
1950s (in the sense 'rubbish, detritus'): origin unknown