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Unixy

Unixy adjective: characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.

Adjective

Unixy (comparative more Unixy, superlative most Unixy)

  1. (informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.
    • On the other hand, since dotfiles are a Unixy concept, we're not that concerned.2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl
    • Thing is, all that Unixy stuff is still there; you just can't see it. OS X manages to hide the files from view...2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks

Synonyms of Unixy

Forms of Unixy

comparativemore Unixy
superlativemost Unixy

Origin of Unixy

From Unix + -y.

Questions about Unixy

What does Unixy mean?
Unixy means characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.
What part of speech is Unixy?
Unixy is an adjective.

Words near Unixy in the dictionary

  1. Unixism
  2. Unixisms
  3. Unixlike
  4. Unixoid
  5. Unixoids
  6. Unixy
  7. unjabbed
  8. unjack
  9. unjacked
  10. unjacketed
  11. unjacking

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