Clbuttic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Clbuttic is an adjective meaning (humorous) Deliberate misspelling of classic.
Meaning
(humorous) Deliberate misspelling of classic.
More Meanings
- A type of error in which some bowdlerizing software garbles words by using tamer alternatives to replace objectionable words occurring within a word.
Example Sentences
That's a clbuttic idea!
This is one of the clbuttic (spelling intentional) reasons why simple find/replace doesn't always work and regular expressions are often used instead.
Profanity can also be found in-between a name. My solution will not detect the profanity in the name “ArAssvin” and that’s because of the clbuttic mistake.
This last phenomenon is sometimes referred to as ‘the clbuttic effect’, named in honour of the mangling of the word ‘classic’ by over-zealous obscenity filters.
Word Forms
- clbuttics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bowdlerization, bowdlerism, bowdlerisation, bastardization, barbarism, balls-up.
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