[mont-guhm-uh-ree, -guhm-ree] 
| 1. | Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (“Monty” ), 1887–1976, British field marshal: World War II commander of British 8th Army in Africa and Europe. |
| 2. | Lucy Maud, 1874–1942, Canadian writer, creator of Anne of Green Gables. |
| 3. | Richard, 1736–75, American Revolutionary general. |
| 4. | Wes (John Leslie Montgomery), 1925–68, U.S. jazz guitarist. |
| 5. | a city in and the capital of Alabama, in the central part, on the Alabama River. 178,157. |
| 6. | a town in SW Ohio. 10,088. |
| 7. | Montgomeryshire. |
| 8. | a male given name. |
monty programming, abuse
/mon'tee/ Any program with a ludicrously complex user interface that performs a trivial task. An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories. The original monty was a weather reporting program, Monty the Amazing Weather Man, written at the USGS. Monty had a widget-packed X-window interface with over 200 buttons; and all it actually *did* was FTP files off the network.
[The Jargon File]
(2005-04-05)