kludge

or kluge

[ klooj ]

/ kludʒ /

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noun Computer Slang.

a software or hardware configuration that, while inelegant, inefficient, clumsy, or patched together, succeeds in solving a specific problem or performing a particular task.

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In the UK, COTTON CANDY is more commonly known as…

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Origin of kludge

First recorded in 1960–65; expressive coinage

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."
Billionaire Divorcee's Happy Ending|Sandra McElwaine|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
According to Marie Ridder, his wife's belly dancing became the main topic of John Kluge's conversation.
Billionaire Divorcee's Happy Ending|Sandra McElwaine|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
"We were monumentally relevant to the world of wine," states Kluge.
Billionaire Divorcee's Happy Ending|Sandra McElwaine|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Patricia Kluge tried to ingratiate herself with her neighbor the queen, but was continually snubbed.
Billionaire Divorcee's Happy Ending|Sandra McElwaine|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST

When Kluge called Trump to ask for financial help last fall, he approached various creditors but was rebuffed.
Billionaire Divorcee's Happy Ending|Sandra McElwaine|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
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)|Anonymous
Of their fore-runner, "der kluge Hans," I had as yet heard nothing.
Lola|Henny Kindermann
Kluge: etymologisches Wrterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 1883.
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English|A. L. Mayhew and Walter W. Skeat
Kluge 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. Skeat
Kluge 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