Small Bumps on certain keycaps to help touch-typists find the home keys (ASDF and JKL ) without looking. They are nearly always on the "F" and "J" of a QWERTY and the "5" of a numeric keypad. The Macintosh, perverse as usual, has them on the "D" and "K" keys. This term is Based on the vernacular American expression "as useful as tits on a Boar" (or Boar-hog, Bull, Bullfrog, or many other variants), meaning "not useful". [Jargon File] (1998-02-25)