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Kludge: /klooj/ Or /kluhj/ N. Common (but Incorrect) Variant Of {kluge}, Q.
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:kludge: /klooj/ or /kluhj/ n. Common (but incorrect) variant
of {kluge}, q.v.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
kludge 1. /klooj/ 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....
TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early '60s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also foobar).
It seems likely that `kluge' came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects that had been located in Cambridge (many in MIT's venerable Building 20, in which TMRC is also located) during the war....
poo: n. Variant of {spooge}, sense 1. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....
XON: /X-on/ n. Syn. {control-Q}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
abbrev: /*-breev'/, /*-brev'/ n. Common abbreviation for `abbreviation'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
meatware: n. Synonym for {wetware}. Less common. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
iff: v.,n. Synonym for {poll}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
kluge around: vt. To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a {kluge}.
Compare {workaround}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...