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klugey

klugey is the alternative form of kludgy.

Meaning of kludgy

Adjective

kludgy (comparative kludgier, superlative kludgiest)

  1. (colloquial) Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
    • This is kind of a kludgy solution, but it will work for now.

Forms of klugey

comparativeklugier
superlativeklugiest

Origin of klugey

From kluge + -y.

Words formed from klugey

Questions about klugey

What is klugey the alternative form of?
Klugey is the alternative form of kludgy.

Words near klugey in the dictionary

  1. Kluge's law
  2. kluged
  3. Kluger
  4. Klugers
  5. kluges
  6. klugey
  7. klugeyness
  8. kluggier
  9. kluggiest
  10. kluggy
  11. Klugh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: klugey (page history and authors); kludgy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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