twonkie

twonkie /twon'kee/ n.  The software equivalent of a
   Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the
   male equivalent of `chick'); a useless `feature' added to look
   sexy and placate a {marketroid} (compare {Saturday-night
   special}).  The term may also be related to "The Twonky",
   title menace of a classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry
   Kuttner and C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942
   "Astounding Science Fiction" and subsequently much
   anthologized.