rude

adj 1: socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such

an unmannered intrusion" [syn: {ill-mannered}, {unmannered},

{unmannerly}]

2: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: {ill-bred},

{bounderish}, {lowbred}, {underbred}, {yokelish}]

3: lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but

to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather [syn:

{uncivil}] [ant: {civil}]

4: (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed

condition; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar";

"bales of rude cotton" [syn: {natural}, {raw(a)}, {rude(a)}]

5: belonging to an early stage of technical development;

characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the

crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early

man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living

conditions in the Appalachian mountains" [syn: {crude}, {primitive}]

rude

[WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program

that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor

design decisions. Opposite: {cuspy}.

2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard

for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal)

problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without

resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep

forcing themselves to the top of the window stack. Compare

{all-elbows}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-10-27)