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

[Martin Kaminer]

This has *got* to be older than 1970, no?

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Your word for Thursday 16th May is: kludgy, adj.

kludgy, adj.
[‘Made or designed in an awkward, makeshift, or haphazard manner;
inelegant; not user-friendly.’]
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈklʌdʒi/, /ˈkluːdʒi/,  U.S. /ˈkludʒi/
Forms:  19– cludgey,   19– cludgy,   19– kludgey,   19– kludgy,   19– klugy.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: kludge n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: <  kludge n. + -y suffix1.
 slang (chiefly Computing).
  Made or designed in an awkward, makeshift, or haphazard manner;
inelegant; not user-friendly.
1970  L. Uhr Flexible Ling. Pattern Recognition(Univ. Wisconsin
Computer Sci. Dept. Techn. Rep. 103) 40 They seem to be rather kludgey
systems, hard to code and refine.
1971 Electronic Equipm. Engin.  Jan. 42/2 This arrangement looks good
but it's a bit klugy so the set-up procedure is slow.
1984 PC  13 Nov. 131/2 This design is a kludgy way to handle RAM.
1992 Personal Computer World  Feb. 269/3 After using a number of
Windows-based programs DOS feels kludgy.
2010 Atlantic Monthly  July 80/1 People will be more likely to pay for
consumer-friendly apps..than they are to subscribe to the same old
kludgy Web site they have been using freely for years.
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