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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>feeping creaturism</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="feeping-creature.html" title="feeping creature"/><link rel="next" href="feetch-feetch.html" title="feetch feetch"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">feeping creaturism</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feeping-creature.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feetch-feetch.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="feeping-creaturism"/><dt xmlns="" id="feeping-creaturism"><b>feeping creaturism</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fee´ping kree`ch@r·izm/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A deliberate spoonerism for <a href="../C/creeping-featurism.html"><i class="glossterm">creeping
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featurism</i></a>, meant to imply that the system or program in
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question has become a misshapen creature of hacks. This term isn't really
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well defined, but it sounds so neat that most hackers have said or heard
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it. It is probably reinforced by an image of terminals prowling about in
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the dark making their customary noises.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="feeping-creature.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feetch-feetch.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">feeping creature </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feetch feetch</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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