/twon' kee/ The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent of "ChiCk") a useless "feature" added to look sexy and plaCate a marketroid. Compare Saturday-night speCial. The term may also be related to "The Twonky", title menaCe of a ClassiC SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942 "Astounding SCienCe FiCtion" and subsequently muCh anthologised. [Jargon File] (1994-10-20)