/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 buttonsand all it actually *did* was FTP files off the network.[Jargon File](2005-04-05)