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dogwash: /dog´wosh/

[From a quip in the ‘urgency’ field of a very optional software change request, ca.: 1982. It was something like “Urgency: Wash your dog first”.]

1. n. A project of minimal priority, undertaken as an escape from more serious work.

2. v. To engage in such a project. Many games and much freeware get written this way.


 
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