Adjective: kluggy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | kluggier |
| Superlative | kluggiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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We all thought of these possibilities as our ship—a great kluggy old thing, with streets of room compared with Lancer—plunged on through murky dust clouds, hot star-forming regions, the lot—hammering inward hard and swift, like an old dog heading home at last. [1995 September, Gregory Benford, “The Place of Angry Gods”, in Sailing Bright Eternity (The Galactic Center Novels; 6), New York, N.Y.: Spectra, →ISBN, page 17:]
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More elegant. As if smarter, better, faster, cheaper, and smaller weren’t enough, the twenty-first century customer also demands an increasingly elegant product or service. No more “kluggy'” approaches. [1999, Richard W. Oliver, “Marketing in the Global Village”, in The Shape of Things to Come: Seven Imperatives for Winning in the New World of Business, New York, N.Y.: BusinessWeek Books, →ISBN, part 2 (The Shape of Things Today), page 91:]
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In the most dramatic computer demonstration of the 1960s, some would say the most dramatic ever, at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1968 in San Francisco, [Douglas] Englebart^([sic]) assembled all his gear on the stage. The tangle of equipment required to carry all this off might be characterized as kluggy, but the reader must appreciate the state of the early time-shared computers and displays he had to work with. [2003, Richard W. Pew, “Introduction: Evolution of Human–Computer Interaction: From Memex to Bluetooth and Beyond”, in Julie A[nne] Jacko, Andrew Sears, editors, The Human–Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications (Human Factors and Ergonomics), Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:]
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The suggestion seems to be far kluggier than my suggested patch since it relies on a user elisp routine passing executing a system call to return a path every time a gnutls connection is requested. [2013 November 11, [email protected], “bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely”, in gnu.emacs.bug (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025:]
Adjectives inflected like kluggy
syrupy,
seemly,
seggsy,
snuffy,
snippy,
snitty,
sniffy,
snotty,
snouty,
snobby,
snoozy,
snooty,
snazzy,
snappy,
snarky,
snarly,
snassy,
snaily,
snacky,
snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From kluge + -y.