wedgitude

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noun

A state of being stuck or wedged.

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Meanings

nounwedgitude (uncountable)
  1. rareslanguncountablecomputingA state of being stuck or wedged.

    I managed to get into the system, remove the wedgitude and booted^([sic]) properly.

    1994, E M Richards, “Thanks”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet)
    2 more examples

    There's very little way to keep random obnoxious users, who *think* they know a lot about Macs, from reconfiguring the systems into a state of supreme wedgitude.

    1996, Karl A. Krueger, “Call to Support Multiple Users”, in comp.sys.be (Usenet)

    Sorry I can't give more detail, I don't remember exactly what I did, either the path to wedgitude or the escape route.

    2001, Stephen J. Turnbull, “No such file or directory ????”, in mailing.comp.coda-list (Usenet)

Origin

From wedge + -itude.

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