klugy

From kluge +‎ -y.

klugy (comparative klugier, superlative klugiest)

1. Alternative form of kludgy.
   • 1987, Dan ColemanArthur Naimanet al., “Basic MacWrite tips”, in The Macintosh Bible: Thousands of Basic and Advanced Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts, Berkeley, Calif.: Goldstein & Blair, →ISBN, part II (Maximizing application programs), chapter 6 (Word processing), page 111:

     There is a klugy way around this problem, but it won’t work with justified text, and you have to indent the first line of every paragraph.

   • 1990, Kim Sterelny, “Is Mental Representation Structured?”, in The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction, Oxford, Oxfordshire] Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, published 1991, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Connectionism), page 182:

     Those who believe that natural selection optimizes, should expect it to build a nonpunctuate mind elegantly, by building a language of thought, rather than a klugy network which has systematicity wired in a step at a time by Mother Programmer.

   • 1991, Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, “Vaginal Orgasm”, in Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality, New York, N.Y.: Summit Books, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Orgasm Equality), page 71:

     Life, all life, is potentially prodigious—the selection or persistence of the few through time resembles less the will of an omnipotent creator than the scrambling of a klugy computer programmer. (“Klugy” is computer talk for a program that is not well designed or even well understood but has, rather, been meddled and fiddled with until it works.)

   • 1991 October 16, Kevin Karplus, “derived classes of buil-in types”, in comp.std.c++‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 June 2025:

     We wanted to have a derived class of a built-in type. In particular, we wanted to derive objects from gnu's Pix type (which is typedef'ed to void*). We have had to do a somewhat klugier derivation that made the Pix be the sole member of a class.

   • 1993 September 22, David Iwatsuki, “Shimano XT cassette removal”, in rec.bicycles.tech‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 June 2025:

     The sprocket-remover mentioned (a.k.a. chain whip) can be home-made. I used some spare chain links and a piece of aluminum bar stock. Drilled a couple of holes in the bar and used my chain tool to rivit^[sic] the chain to it. Didn't even have to use an HG chain :-) Net cost was $0, maybe 5 minutes time. If you want to be even klugier, wrap a length of chain around the cogs and grab the ends with a ViseGrip.

   • 2008, Jane C. Linder, quoting Chet Wayland, “Secret #4: Energize People”, in Spiral Up … and Other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives, New York, N.Y.: AMACOM, →ISBN, page 181:

     Our workaround was the klugiest thing you can imagine, but it worked. And it was up and running on May 1.