Clbuttic
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A type of error in which some bowdlerizing software garbles words by using tamer alternatives to replace objectionable words occurring within a word.
"Indeed, the error is similar to the “clbuttic effect” described above—an errant text filter attempting to “clean up” text by replacing offensive terms with theoretically more appropriate ones."
- 1 Deliberate misspelling of classic. alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling
"That's a clbuttic idea!"
Example
More examples"And sometimes such changes are done automatically, with no chance for review -- either for "security" reasons, when Yahoo Mail started replacing 'eval' in *emails* with 'review' (The Hindu carried an article about "the world of medireview Indian history", others on 'reviewuate'), or for "profanity" reasons ("fixing" 'ass' and 'tit'), of which "consbreastitution"^([sic]) is a clbuttic embarbutting example."
Etymology
A modification of the word classic by automated string substitution of ass for butt.
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