[W/K] :: crufty

  crufty /kruhf'tee/ adj. [very common; origin unknown; poss. from
     `crusty' or `cruddy'] 1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The
     canonical example is "This is standard old crufty DEC software". In
     fact, one fanciful theory of the origin of `crufty' holds that was
     originally a mutation of `crusty' applied to DEC software so old that
     the `s' characters were tall and skinny, looking more like `f'
     characters. 2. Unpleasant, especially to the touch, often with encrusted
     junk. Like spilled coffee smeared with peanut butter and catsup. 3.
     Generally unpleasant. 4. (sometimes spelled `cruftie') n. A small crufty
     object (see frob); often one that doesn't fit well into the scheme of
     things. "A LISP property list is a good place to store crufties (or,
     collectively, random cruft)."
  
     This term is one of the oldest in the jargon and no one is sure of its
     etymology, but it is suggestive that there is a Cruft Hall at Harvard
     University which is part of the old physics building; it's said to have
     been the physics department's radar lab during WWII. To this day (early
     1993) the windows appear to be full of random techno-junk. MIT or
     Lincoln Labs people may well have coined the term as a knock on the
     competition.