brain-damaged

English

Etymology 1

brain + damaged

Adjective

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

  1. Suffering from brain damage (an injury to the brain).

Etymology 2

Generalization of “Honeywell Brain Damage” (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain poor design decisions in Honeywell Multics.[1]

Adjective

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

  1. (programming, pejorative) Poorly designed; obviously wrong
    Synonyms: 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.

References

  1. ↑ “brain-damaged”, in The Jargon File‎, accessed 2008-06-27
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