runic
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Adjective (1)
- relating to or consisting of runes“runic inscription”Relating to rune
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
Runic staff. See Clog almanac, under Clog. — Runic wand, a willow wand bearing runes, formerly thought to have been used by the heathen tribes of Northern Europe in magical ceremonies.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<jargon> Obscure, consisting of runes.
VMS fans sometimes refer to Unix as "RUnix". Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to "Very Messy Syntax" or "Vachement Mauvais Systeme" (French; literally "Cowlike Bad System", idiomatically "Bitchy Bad System").
(1996-09-17)
The Jargon File
Syn. obscure. VMS fans sometimes refer to Unix as ‘Runix’; Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to ‘Very Messy Syntax’ or ‘Vachement Mauvais Système’ (French idiom, “Hugely Bad System”).