I came across two possible origins for the term glitch: one comes from the German word Glitschen, which means to slip, while the other comes from slang used by astronauts referring to the sound made by a surge in voltage on spacecraft’s. Today the term is similarly referred to as ‘a temporary malfunction normally within technology’. It doesn’t seam that a glitch has to be an action that an object isn’t supposed to do, but one, which causes the object to appear as though it has become disorderly.