kluggy

English

Etymology

From kluge +‎ -y.

Adjective

kluggy (comparative kluggier, superlative kluggiest)

  1. Alternative form of kludgy.
    • 1995 September, Gregory Benford, “The Place of Angry Gods”, in Sailing Bright Eternity (The Galactic Center Novels; 6), New York, N.Y.: Spectra, →ISBN, page 17:
      We all thought of these possibilities as our ship—a great kluggy old thing, with streets of room compared with Lancer—plunged on through murky dust clouds, hot star-forming regions, the lot—hammering inward hard and swift, like an old dog heading home at last.
    • 1999, Richard W. Oliver, “Marketing in the Global Village”, in The Shape of Things to Come: Seven Imperatives for Winning in the New World of Business, New York, N.Y.: BusinessWeek Books, →ISBN, part 2 (The Shape of Things Today), page 91:
      More elegant. As if smarter, better, faster, cheaper, and smaller weren’t enough, the twenty-first century customer also demands an increasingly elegant product or service. No more “kluggy'” approaches.
    • 2003, Richard W. Pew, “Introduction: Evolution of Human–Computer Interaction: From Memex to Bluetooth and Beyond”, in Julie A[nne] Jacko, Andrew Sears, editors, The Human–Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications (Human Factors and Ergonomics), Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:
      In the most dramatic computer demonstration of the 1960s, some would say the most dramatic ever, at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1968 in San Francisco, [Douglas] Englebart[sic] assembled all his gear on the stage. The tangle of equipment required to carry all this off might be characterized as kluggy, but the reader must appreciate the state of the early time-shared computers and displays he had to work with.
    • 2013 November 11, em...@kosowsky.org, “bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely”, in gnu.emacs.bug‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 1 June 2025:
      The suggestion seems to be far kluggier than my suggested patch since it relies on a user elisp routine passing executing a system call to return a path every time a gnutls connection is requested.
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