Word of The Day: Pile

Pile

n. pahyl

1. a collection of objects laid on top of each other

2. What happens when something is so utterly terrible that it’s heaped into a mound of failure, resembling nothing so much as a collection of animal shit, which you’ve probably just stepped in.

Example: The kerfuffle over this subdomain and it’s associated implications for the document root that it serves has turned gone hostile. This project is officially a pile.

synonyms: heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus