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brillant 

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

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

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

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.

strategically brilliant

The War Criminal in Chief’s typically grandiose self-assessment of his impulsive and ignorant decision to pull US troops out of Syria.
What I’ve done in Syria is quite frankly strategically brilliant; I know you don’t like it but Syria is mostly a lot of sand - and Vlady’s gonna really love me now!

brillant 

Not to be confused with brilliant.

Adjective, indicating an amazing lack of skill coupled with an incredible blindness to aforementioned lack of skill.
package test;

public class paulaBean {

private String paula = "Brillant";

public String getPaula() {
return paula;
}
}
brillant by Cyresse September 11, 2005
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