feature
= F =
feature creep
feature creature n.
[poss. fr. slang `creature feature'
for a horror movie] 1. One who loves to add features to designs or
programs, perhaps at the expense of coherence, concision, or
taste. 2. Alternately, a mythical being that induces
otherwise rational programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also
feeping creaturism, creeping featurism.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.