Meaning of kluggy | Babel Free

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level