Meanings
nounangry fruit salad (countable and uncountable, plural angry fruit salads)
plural angry fruit salads
- countableslangcomputingA web page or user interface that is poorly designed and overuses color.
- slanguncountablecomputingSuch designs in general.
Origin
From the bright colors associated with anger, and the unnaturally bright colors of many canned "fruit cocktail" mixtures.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German Klickibunti
- Klickibuntibad interface design that overuses color
Korean 화난 과일 샐러드
- 화난 과일 샐러드 (hwanan gwail saelleodeu)bad interface design that overuses color
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angry fruit salad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angry%20fruit%20salad
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“angry fruit salad.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angry%20fruit%20salad. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “angry fruit salad,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angry%20fruit%20salad.
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