7 ms·
Likely a variant spelling of frammis; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frammis https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frammis
by trurl42 5y ago
Likely a variant spelling of frammis; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frammis https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frammis
- spacemanmatt 5y agoframmis, frammistat, frob, frobnicate, and a few others are "hacker" words that I learned from downloading text files on bulletin boards in the 80s. i only ever heard them from that source, until i had a manager from that era except he was all military software background. (yeesh, he was awful)
- dorianmariefr 5y agoSomething, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term
- munk-a 5y agoCould frammish be a portmanteau then? Condensing "frammis-ish" to frammish - as in gizmo-like, maybe the thing you need to build which may or may not be a distinct component?
- JKCalhoun 5y agoThought it was a Carrollian invention: sort of like beamish, uffish, frumious...
- layer8 5y agoMaybe I’ll use that when I finally get around to writing a UI framework. ButtonFrammis, CheckboxFrammis, LabelFrammis, TextInputFrammis, …
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoIterestingly, several of the Google Books results for Frammis are Joe Celko's SQL books, wonder if there's a connection.