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kludgy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /klʌd͡ʒi/
• (US) audio
• /ˈkluːd͡ʒi/

Etymology

Etymology tree English kludge Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English kludgy From kludge + -y.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
   • Even if you imagine a political earthquake that eliminated the power of the insurance industry and objections to higher taxes, you’d still have to protect the interests of workers with better-than-average coverage, so that in practice single-payer, American style, would be almost as kludgy as Obamacare. 2016 January 18, Paul Krugman, “Health Reform Realities”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • This is kind of a kludgy solution, but it will work for now.
   • […] It’s kludgy language to describe a kludgy process. 2018 January 21, Peter Suderman, “The Shutdown Shows the Twisted Rules of a Broken Congress”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • All you'd need to do is pour your kludgy old application into a container and run it in Kubernetes, and you're cloud native now, right? Nope. All you've done is make your application harder to deploy and harder to manage. 2021, Matthew A. Titmus, Cloud Native Go, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
   • What is still kludgy is how the data is gathered and passed to the function InjectHTML. 2006, Christian Gross, Ajax Patterns and Best Practices, Apress, →ISBN, page 174:

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Relateds

kludge · kludgie