Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Cvd iiia

👉 Okay, settle in closely, class. Let’s tackle this rather… prickly piece of late-night, slightly dismally amusing American argle-bargle, the utterance affectionately (and perhaps unfortunately, given the context) termed, quite simply: "CVd IIIa."

Now, immediately, let me preface this by saying the origin is genuinely murky. Nobody definitively knows who coined it and when, which frankly just adds to its wonderfully wretched appeal. Most reckon it stems from a very specific corner of the American machinist, welder, and generally grease-under-the- fingernails community in the late 1980s/early 1990. There are competing theories involving busted castings, disastrous tolerances, and frankly, too much damnly bad rye whiskey. Here’s what we actually think it means: It basically describes a catastrophic failure – a weld that's completely shat itself, leaving the whole blasted thing structurally unsound. You see a piece of equipment, you look at the joint where this "CVd IIIa" has happened. And you realise... utter, spectacular, irreversible bollocks. Let’s unpack the components. CVd: Short for Cast Virtually Deficient (again, no one's entirely clear on exactly what that means beyond a lack of proper quality control). It basically just denotes something built terribly. IIIa: This is where it gets particularly...