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by trurl42 1556 days ago
Likely a variant spelling of frammis; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frammis
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Could frammish be a portmanteau then? Condensing "frammis-ish" to frammish - as in gizmo-like, maybe the thing you need to build which may or may not be a distinct component?
Iterestingly, several of the Google Books results for Frammis are Joe Celko's SQL books, wonder if there's a connection.
Maybe I’ll use that when I finally get around to writing a UI framework. ButtonFrammis, CheckboxFrammis, LabelFrammis, TextInputFrammis, …
Thought it was a Carrollian invention: sort of like beamish, uffish, frumious...
Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term
frammis, frammistat, frob, frobnicate, and a few others are "hacker" words that I learned from downloading text files on bulletin boards in the 80s. i only ever heard them from that source, until i had a manager from that era except he was all military software background. (yeesh, he was awful)