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