klugey

English

Etymology

From kluge +‎ -y.

Adjective

klugey (comparative more klugey, superlative most klugey)

1. Alternative form of kludgy.
   • 2002, Matt Curtin, Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page 153:

     Probably the most straightforward solution would be to put the www-rl servers into another domain altogether. Netscape—originally known as Mosaic Communications—has other domains besides netscape.com available to it. Some other domains available would include netscape.net, and mcom.com. Arguably, this is a klugey solution, since it’s a special case of a different type: all of Netscape’s servers are part of the netscape.com domain, where they can easily be identified. Our solution really has both klugey and elegant parts.

   • 2016, Samuel Arbesman, “The Origins of the Kluge”, in Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension, New York, N.Y.: Current, →ISBN, pages 40–41:

     Essentially, it is more efficient for the law to make these klugey patches on the overcomplicated tax code than to overhaul it entirely from scratch to make it more user-friendly.

   • 2018, Rob DeSalle, “Team of Rivals Meets the Kluge: Making Sense Out of Crossmodal Stimuli from the Outer World”, in Our Senses: An Immersive Experience, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 161:

     Once a structure or behavior arises as a product of mutation and is amplified as a result of natural selection, or a structure or behavior arises and is amplified by genetic drift, no matter how klugey, it is retained in a population. And if natural selection acts further to increase the frequency of the klugey solution, a population cannot simply scrap the solution for a less klugey approach.