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wart
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wart /n./ A small, crocky feature that sticks out
of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for
localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a
general rule. For example, in some versions of `csh(1)',
single quotes literalize every character inside them except
`!'. In ANSI C, the `??' syntax used for obtaining ASCII
characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also
miswart.
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