jury-rig vs kludge

jury-rig

noun
  • An improvised rigging. 

verb
  • To make an improvised rigging or assembly from whatever is available. 

  • To create a makeshift, ad hoc solution from resources at hand. 

  • To rig a jury; to engage in jury rigging (that is, jury tampering); to improperly influence jurors, or the selection of jurors, such that they return a certain result. 

kludge

noun
  • An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design. 

  • Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently. 

  • An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts. 

  • A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack. 

verb
  • To build or use a kludge. 

How often have the words jury-rig and kludge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )