Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Alternative spelling of kludge.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySomething that should not work, but does. · A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes.
From US military slang, possibly from German klug (“clever”), or perhaps from Dutch Low Saxon klütje (“(little) dumpling, clod”), Jutland Danish klyt (“piece of bad workmanship, klud(g)e”); compare standard Danish kludder (“mess, disorder”). (Compare English klutz.) According to the OED, an "invented word" influenced by bodge and fudge. Compare kludge.
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