Being incompetent, having a grossly inflated sense of one's competence, and possibly being lazy too, with the result being a very bad (or non-working) design or implementation. Often used in conjunction with the name "Paula". Originates from a post on The Daily WTF (an online forum discussing examples of bad programming practices) where a lazy programmer named Paula had coded exactly five lines of Java for a major project in several months and had managed to bullshit her way through weekly meetings regarding her progress. One of the lines was:

private String paula = "Brillant";

whose sheer elementariness, inappropriateness in production code, narcissism and self-inflation, with a weird spelling for "Brillant" on top of everything else, was deemed memorable.

"Have a separate table for each customer instead of a field in a single table? That's brillant!"

brillant by AnonGoat June 11, 2006

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brilliant

A term the British use to describe everything.

I's brilliant in't it? Right, yah, bloody brilliant. Wha' is? Oh, yah, right, brilliant. Bloody brillant.

brilliant by Lord Russell August 12, 2004

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Fucking Brilliant

!. An expression, particularly popular with the British and the Irish, that means something is really cool, really awesome, top notch, way above expectations.

2. A sarcastic expression of how good something (an idea, etc) is/was.

1. "This is really really fucking brilliant" - Bono (2003, Golden Globes)

2. "Luke, blasting the controls that extend the bridge was fucking brilliant" - Leia (what she would have said if "Star Wars" was not rated PG)

Fucking Brilliant by Sans0uAvecV0us January 21, 2009

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Fishmonger Brilliant

The third and highest level of brilliance. There's Ordinary Brilliant, Absolute Brilliant and then there's Fishmonger Brilliant.

Stretto's elbow-dance is Fishmonger Brilliant.

Fishmonger Brilliant by Webby's sweaty, rasping cleft September 12, 2006

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