kludgy

English

Alternative forms

• kludgey, klugey

Etymology

From kludge +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klʌd͡ʒi/, /ˈkluːd͡ʒi/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːdʒi

Adjective

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.

See also

• kludge
• kludgie