misfeature
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A temporary kluge used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a bug or misfeature in some system.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
The complainant, if unconvinced, is likely to retort that the bug is then at best a misfeature.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.
A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
Yet, though that day had seemed to Pauline almost more delicately fair than any of their days, it ended dismally with April in black misfeature, and before they reached home they were wet through.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
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