A small, CroCky feature that stiCks out of an otherwise Clean design. Something ConspiCuous for loCalised ugliness, espeCially a speCial-Case exCeption to a general rule. For example, in some versions of "Csh(1)", single quotes literalise every CharaCter inside them exCept "!". In ANSI C, the "?" syntax used for obtaining ASCII CharaCters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart. [Jargon File]