mego
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
MEGO \MEGO\, n. [My eyes glaze over.]
A very dull article, speech, or book, which causes the reader
or listener to rapidly lose interest; -- often used of
involved discussions of a technical nature, especially in
newspapers. [Acronym, Slang]
[PJC]
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
MEGO
/me'goh/, /mee'goh/
["My Eyes Glaze Over", often "Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over",
attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also MEGO factor.
1. n. A {handwave} intended to confuse the listener and hopefully
induce agreement because the listener does not want to admit to not
understanding what is going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior
management by engineers and contains a high proportion of {TLA}s.
2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics.
3. Among non-hackers, often refers not to behavior that causes the
eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be
triggered by the mere threat of excessive technical detail as
effectively as by an actual excess of it.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
MEGO
/me"goh/ or /mee'goh/ ["My Eyes Glaze Over", often "Mine Eyes
Glazeth (sic) Over", attributed to the futurologist Herman
Kahn] Also "MEGO factor". 1. A {handwave} intended to
confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because
the listener does not want to admit to not understanding what
is going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior management by
engineers and contains a high proportion of {TLAs}.
2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics. 3. Among
non-hackers, often refers not to behaviour that causes the
eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which
may be triggered by the mere threat of technical detail as
effectively as by an actual excess of it.
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