brain-damaged

Adjective

(comparative more brain-damaged, superlative most brain-damaged)

Origin

brain + damaged

Adjective

(comparative more brain-damaged, superlative most brain-damaged)

(programming, pejorative) Poorly designed; obviously wrong; cretinous; demented.

Usage notes

This is a harsh insult, suggesting that the mistake is so egregious that only a brain-damaged person could have committed it.

Origin

Generalization of “Honeywell Brain Damage” (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics.

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