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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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Britland 

A tiny little island floating off the coast of Frenchland. I've heard that british people come from Britland... which actually makes sense if you think about it
Britland by Bad Cheetah December 24, 2007

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

brieland 

A very smart, sweet girl. Who's kind to everyone and is a peer supporter at her school. She's into vampires and like helping other people with any prolems they may have. All in all she is a great person.
example? well isn't that up there?
brieland by six March 31, 2005

Britland 

A Country full of gay people. Britland is a term to call a British Person Gay
Britland is gay
How are you Britland
Britland by African dick November 12, 2019

brilantina

a name of a gorgeous girl with pretty green eyes and a perfect personality!
person 1: what’s your name?
person 2: Brilantina
person 1: omg you’re perfect!!
brilantina by amievenaperson? July 17, 2021