hungus

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

hungus
 /huhng'g@s/, adj.

   [perhaps related to slang `humongous'] Large, unwieldy, usually
   unmanageable. "TCP is a hungus piece of code." "This is a hungus set
   of modifications." The {Infocom} text adventure game Beyond Zork
   included two monsters called hunguses.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

hungus

   <jargon> /huhng'g*s/ (Perhaps related to slang "humongous")
   Large, unwieldy, usually unmanageable.  E.g. "{TCP} is a
   hungus piece of code."

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