kludgy
/ˈkluːd͡ʒi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This is kind of a kludgy solution, but it will work for now."
- "What is still kludgy is how the data is gathered and passed to the function InjectHTML."
- "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."
- "[…] It’s kludgy language to describe a kludgy process."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English kludge Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English kludgy From kludge + -y.