twonkie: /twon'kee/ n. The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a
variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang with a small t)
the male equivalent of `chick'); a useless `feature' added to look
sexy and placate a marketroid (compare Saturday-night special).
The term may also be related to "The Twonky", title menace of a
classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L.
Moore), first published in the September 1942 "Astounding Science
Fiction" and subsequently much anthologized.
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