kludge

   1.  /kluhj/  n.  Incorrect  (though  regrettably  common) spelling of
   {kluge}  (US).  These  two words have been confused in American usage
   since  the  early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since
   the end of World War II.

   2.  [TMRC]  A  {crock}  that works. (A long-ago Datamation article by
   Jackson  Granholme  similarly  said:  "An  ill-assorted collection of
   poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole.")

   3.  v.  To use a kludge to get around a problem. "I've kludged around
   it for now, but I'll fix it up properly later."

   This  word appears to have derived from Scots kludge or kludgie for a
   common  toilet,  via  British  military  slang.  It apparently became
   confused with U.S. {kluge} during or after World War II; some Britons
   from that era use both words in definably different ways, but {kluge}
   is  now  uncommon  in Great Britain. `Kludge' in Commonwealth hackish
   differs in meaning from `kluge' in that it lacks the positive senses;
   a  kludge  is something no Commonwealth hacker wants to be associated
   too  closely  with.  Also,  `kludge'  is more widely known in British
   mainstream slang than `kluge' is in the U.S.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {bodge}{foo}{kluge}{knurd}{munge}{shim}]