kludge

or kluge

[klooj]

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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Origin of kludge

First recorded in 1960–65; expressive coinage

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Examples from the Web for kluge

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
"We were monumentally relevant to the world of wine," states Kluge.
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
"I was hot looking in my twenties," Kluge told The Daily Telegraph.
Billionaire Divorcee's Happy Ending|Sandra McElwaine|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST

When Kluge laid eyes on the exotic former centerfold, he was smitten and, before long, divorced.
Billionaire Divorcee's Happy Ending|Sandra McElwaine|January 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
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
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: etymologisches Wrterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 1883.
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English|A. L. Mayhew and Walter W. Skeat

Word Origin and History for kluge

kludge

1962, noun and verb, U.S. slang, fanciful coinage by U.S. author Jackson W. Granholm (b.1921). Related: Kludgy.