kludge

Etymology
Perhaps from British military slang, possibly based on a word  or, or perhaps from. Alternatively, possibly related to and.

Alternatively, perhaps from (a form related to) Germanic words such as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 or Jutland 🇨🇬; compare and standard 🇨🇬. (Compare klutz.)

There is evidence that (which see) was once a separate word with similar meaning but separate derivation, but the spelling  was widely popularized in the US by a 1962  article on "How to Design a Kludge", and since then the two words have often been used as alternative spellings of each other.

According to the OED, an "invented word" influenced by and.

Noun

 * 1)  An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design.
 * 2)  Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
 * 3)  An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
 * 4)  A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:workaround

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: purkkaratkaisu,
 * French:
 * German: Behelfslösung, ,
 * Macedonian: курафте техника
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To build or use a kludge.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:kludge