ENOTUITS

E1N1O1T1U1I1T1S1

interjection

A fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being discussed).

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Meanings

interjection
  1. humorouscomputingA fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being discussed).

    ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed

    2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list

Origin

Mimics the form of C error codes: for example, on Linux, a library call may return the error code ENOMEM to indicate that it has run out of memory. TUITS comes from round tuit.

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APA

ENOTUITS. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ENOTUITS

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Chicago

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