• Cheeseware

    Origin

    cheese + -ware

    Full definition of cheeseware

    Noun

    cheeseware

    (uncountable)
    1. (computing, slang, pejorative) Exceptionally low-quality software.
      • 2000, "The New Computers in School", Strategic Finance, 1 September 2000:Perhaps most important, it has removed us even further from the "gee whiz!" mind-set that dominated our first reactions to computing--a frame of mind that made us so appreciative of the wondrous complexity of those putty-colored boxes that we became vulnerable to the half-baked, the beta, and even the well-marketed cheeseware.
      • 2002, 3 January, John Capriotti, Re: Walmart: Games in DVD cases??, Many of the games they stock now are already in the mini-boxes, new titles not just cheeseware.
      • 2005, 9 August, Phil Thompson, Re: AOL Broadband, To run the AOL cheeseware on more than one machine at once (why, FFS, I have no idea) you need more "screen names" whatever they may be.
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