Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design. · Game mechanics of unconventional or flawed design or implementation, and the experience of such mechanics, as to ruin or disrupt play, or break immersion; e.g. bugs and glitches. · A game, or games, with such mechanics.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryJanky.
Ostensibly a back-formation from janky (“shoddy, poor quality”).
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