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)