kludgy

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From kludge +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /klʌd͡ʒi/, /ˈkluːd͡ʒi/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːdʒi

Adjective

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kludgy (comparative kludgier, superlative kludgiest)

  1. (colloquial) Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
    This is kind of a kludgy solution, but it will work for now.
    • 2006, Christian Gross, Ajax Patterns and Best Practices, Apress, →ISBN, page 174:
      What is still kludgy is how the data is gathered and passed to the function InjectHTML.
    • 2016 January 18, Paul Krugman, “Health Reform Realities”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      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.
    • 2018 January 21, Peter Suderman, “The Shutdown Shows the Twisted Rules of a Broken Congress”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      [] It’s kludgy language to describe a kludgy process.
    • 2021, Matthew A. Titmus, Cloud Native Go, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
      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.

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