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borkage en · NOUN

Etymology

From bork + -age.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A failure or breakdown.
   • Sadly, 2018 was not done with the devices and further borkages followed later in the year. 2018 December 25, Richard Speed, “Microsoft's 2018, part 1: Open source, wobbly Windows and everyone's going to the cloud”, in The Register:
   • The issue follows a string of public cloud outages; a reminder that even the best resourced IaaS companies are not immune to development and infrastructure borkage. 2019 November 11, Ed Targett, “Google Cloud in Major Global Outage: Numerous Services Fail”, in Computer Business Review:
   • Stop yawning at the back, this stuff may not be fancy new iPhones or sweet silicon stuff, but it's good for code-wrangling developers struggling to spot borkages in their work. 2019 September 19, Roland Moore-Colyer, “GitHub buys Semmle to add flaw-spotting code analysis into its repositories”, in The Inquirer:
   • It is just a simple borkage. It be a mean thing. But it could not be stated that the program failure was of extremely high importance, not – it was just a typical accident, and some of them occurs from time to time in the Dream System Centre. 2018, Albert Alcherbad, The DreamCorp:

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