jinky
adj.— «I got this yesterday, I thought it was just me. Except that the screen went all jinky and I had to do a soft reset. Very strange.» —“Re: Reseating Stylus in PalmPro turns it off” by W. Gary Martin (wgary@ibm.net) Usenet: alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot Sept. 10, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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