weenie
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
weenie
n.
1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of luser resembling a less amusing
version of {B1FF} that infests many {BBS} systems. The typical weenie
is a teenage boy with poor social skills travelling under a grandiose
{handle} derived from fantasy or heavy-metal rock lyrics. Among
sysops, the weenie problem refers to the marginally literate and
profanity-laden {flamage} weenies tend to spew all over a
newly-discovered BBS. Compare {spod}, {geek}, {terminal junkie},
{warez d00dz}.
2. [among hackers] When used with a qualifier (for example, as in
{Unix weenie}, VMS weenie, IBM weenie) this can be either an insult or
a term of praise, depending on context, tone of voice, and whether or
not it is applied by a person who considers him or herself to be the
same sort of weenie. Implies that the weenie has put a major
investment of time, effort, and concentration into the area indicated;
whether this is good or bad depends on the hearer's judgment of how
the speaker feels about that area. See also {bigot}.
3. The semicolon character, ; (ASCII 0111011).
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
weenie
1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of {luser} resembling a less
amusing version of {BIFF} that infests many {BBS}es. The
typical weenie is a teenage boy with poor social skills
travelling under a grandiose {handle} derived from fantasy or
heavy-metal rock lyrics. Among {sysops}, "the weenie problem"
refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden
{flamage} weenies tend to spew all over a newly-discovered
BBS.
Compare {spod}, {computer geek}, {terminal junkie}.
2. Among hackers, when used with a qualifier (for example, as
in {Unix weenie}, {VMS} weenie, {IBM} weenie) this can be
either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context,
tone of voice, and whether or not it is applied by a person
who considers him or herself to be the same sort of weenie.
It implies that the weenie has put a major investment of time,
effort and concentration into the area indicated; whether this
is good or bad depends on the hearer's judgment of how the
speaker feels about that area. See also {bigot}.
3. The {semicolon} character, ";" ({ASCII} 59).
(1995-01-18)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "weenie":
Vienna sausage, bangers, black pudding, blood pudding, bologna,
braunschweiger, frank, frankfurter, gooseliver, headcheese,
hot dog, knockwurst, liver sausage, liverwurst, salami, saucisse,
sausage, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie
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