chuntey

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A supposed aura surrounding the cassette loading mechanism of the ZX Spectrum computer, highly sensitive to disruption, which will cause the loading process to fail.

Word forms

chuntey

Etymology

Coined on the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup, from an accidental misspelling of chutney.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.