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

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Thu May 16 13:53:06 UTC 2019


> On May 16, 2019, at 5:56 AM, Martin Kaminer <martin.kaminer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> This has *got* to be older than 1970, no?

"klu(d)ge" is certainly older than 1970; the OED entry was for the derived adjective "kludgy".

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