automagically

automagically
 /aw.toh.maj'i.klee/, adv.

   Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because
   it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the
   speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See {magic}. "The
   C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to
   produce an executable."

   This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon
   and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in
   advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late
   1940s.
    

automagically

   <jargon> /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ or /aw-toh-maj'i-k*l-ee/
   Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically
   because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even
   too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you.

   E.g. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically
   invokes {cc} to produce an executable."

   See {magic}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (2001-05-18)