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nasal demon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables
nasal de-mon
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Unexpected behavior of a compiled program as a result of source code that employs an undefined construct.

Humorous; Slang

Etymology

From a 1992 post on the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c; see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html.

Usage

Inflected Forms

nasal demons (plural)

Questions

What does nasal demon mean?
Unexpected behavior of a compiled program as a result of source code that employs an undefined construct.
Where does nasal demon come from?
From a 1992 post on the Usenet newsgroup comp.std.c; see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html.

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