[Ads-l] "kludgy, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED

Parish, James jparish at SIUE.EDU
Sat May 18 13:42:35 UTC 2019


On 5/18/2019 8:17 AM, James A. Landau wrote:
> I have run across this story twice, once in college about 1967 and once in a story in Analog Science Fiction entitled iirc "Hawk Among The Sparrows".  In both cases the it was not a "kludge" but a "coosh".

"Coosh" (or "cush", with the lax vowel U) was the version I heard in 
elementary school, probably 1969.

Jim Parish


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