/dog' wosh/ (A quip in the "urgency" field of a very optional software change request, ca. 1982. IT was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first") A project of minimal priorITy, undertaken as an escape from more serious work. Many games and much freeware get wrITten this way, including {this dictionary}. [Jargon File] (1994-12-08)