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kluginess

kluginess is the alternative form of kludginess.

Meaning of kludginess

Noun

kludginess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being kludgy.
    • ALPHA-ASET checks for a non-quoted first argument. (Presently RABBIT does not allow for computed ASET variables. Since RABBIT was written, such computed variables have in fact been banned from the SCHEME language [Revised Report].) For simplicity, it also does not allow altering a global variable...1978 May, Guy Lewis Steele, Jr., RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME (A Dialect of LISP). […] (AI-TR-474), Cambridge, Mass.: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Origin of kluginess

From klugey /klugy + -ness.

Questions about kluginess

What is kluginess the alternative form of?
Kluginess is the alternative form of kludginess.

Words near kluginess in the dictionary

  1. Klugh
  2. Klughs
  3. klugier
  4. klugiest
  5. klugily
  6. kluginess
  7. kluging
  8. Klugman
  9. Klugmann
  10. Klugs
  11. klugy

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