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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
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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
The coolest girl you know. Gorgeous. Usually with red hair. Like bright red. So nice. Hard to figure out unless you get to know her, then she'll open up to you like a book. She's an amazing friend. She'll listen to what you have to say. She will tell you what she thinks. She is super understanding.
Person: Who's Brillet ?

You: SEXY, GORGEOUS, PERFECT, UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEING.
Brillet by Graci_Saur September 6, 2012
TO CHILL, LAYING OUT WIT FRIENDS
I WAS BRILLEN YESTERDAY
BRILLEN by TWIST100 January 23, 2009

brillenspasti 

a brillenspasti is an expression for a natural athlete, especially in powersports like weightlifting or bodybuilding.
although he has such big muscles, he claims to be a brillenspasti.
brillenspasti by u-no-me April 17, 2009

Brillant 

A fan of the one and only kind hearted, adorable kpop loving Filipino actress and singer Andrea Brillantes
A Brillant will always support Andrea, no matter what