ENOTUITS

English

Etymology

Mimics the form of C error codes: for example, on Linux, a library call may return the error code ENOMEM to indicate that it has run out of memory. TUITS comes from round tuit.

Interjection

ENOTUITS

  1. (computing, humorous) An error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being discussed).
    • 2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list:
      ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed
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