feature creature

( n.)

   [poss. fr. slang `creature feature' for a horror movie]

   1.  One  who loves to add features to designs or programs, perhaps at
   the expense of coherence, concision, or {taste}.

   2.  Alternately,  a  mythical  being  that induces otherwise rational
   programmers to perpetrate such crocks. See also {feeping creaturism},
   {creeping featurism}.

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