lint

lint  [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of
   fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1. vt. To examine a
   program closely for style, language usage, and portability
   problems, esp. if in C, esp. if via use of automated analysis
   tools, most esp. if the UNIX utility `lint(1)' is used.
   This term used to be restricted to use of `lint(1)' itself,
   but (judging by references on Usenet) it has become a shorthand for
   {desk check} at some non-UNIX shops, even in languages other
   than C.  Also as v. {delint}.  2. n. Excess verbiage in a
   document, as in "This draft has too much lint".