Se> /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* waSFTP fileS off the network. [Jargon File] (2005-04-05)