Gemware 

Gems being used in a functional way such as marking a piece of stemware for personal identification in a group or as a necklace to hold eyewear around the neck.

The base of the champagne stem was adorned with a gemstone wire charm called gemware.

Gemware by Wordametologist October 23, 2011

gelware 

The stuff between your ears that does the same thing as hardware and software

I didn't have my computer handy, so I did that calculation in gelware.

gelware by anon 7 January 5, 2009

gelware 

A slang term for "soft hardware," digital electronic circuits that are programmed into a reconfigurable logic device such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).

Nuby: Should we create a custom chip for this design?
Guru: Nah, too expensive.
Nuby: Well, then let's just run it in software.
Guru: That won't perform fast enough.
Nuby: Well, what then?
Guru: We do in gelware, of course!

gelware by drthanos2 October 8, 2010

gumware

Software that is like the underside of an old school desk's, gum stalactites—layer upon layer of contributions, some fresh, some fossilized, all stuck together in a way that mostly holds but isn’t exactly clean or intentional

Our poor software engineers had to deal with using a lot of gumware third-part libraries to make the application functional.

gumware by concernedev January 29, 2025