kludge
or kluge
a software or hardware configuration that, while inelegant, inefficient, clumsy, or patched together, succeeds in solving a specific problem or performing a particular task.
Origin of kludge
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How to use kludge in a sentence
Kluge is headed to Florida for what she calls much needed R&R; she and her husband, William Moses, "will be dancing everyday."
According to Marie Ridder, his wife's belly dancing became the main topic of John Kluge's conversation.
"We were monumentally relevant to the world of wine," states Kluge.
Patricia Kluge tried to ingratiate herself with her neighbor the queen, but was continually snubbed.
When Kluge called Trump to ask for financial help last fall, he approached various creditors but was rebuffed.
The unmanly lamentations of the heroes over a fate that has not befallen them may remind us of Grimm's story of "Die kluge Else."
Kalevala, Volume II (of 2) | AnonymousOf their fore-runner, "der kluge Hans," I had as yet heard nothing.
Lola | Henny KindermannKluge: etymologisches Wrterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 1883.
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English | A. L. Mayhew and Walter W. SkeatKluge connects this htta with Gothic hhan, to hang, so that it may mean radically a state of being in suspense.
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English | A. L. Mayhew and Walter W. SkeatKluge accepts gutturalizing of a palatal c before a consonant where this position is the result of syncopation of a palatal vowel.
Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch | George Tobias Flom
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