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Heath Robinsonesque
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English
Etymology
From en Heath Robinson esque.
Adjective
Ingenious, and often complex, but absurdly impractical or even useless.
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1987, Barnaby Page, How to copy half a million cassettes (in Crash magazine issue 47, December 1987)
Putting it all together: the cassette’s been run through a labelling machine, and now this Heath Robinsonesque device adds the inlay and the box in one swift operation, taking about three seconds for each cassette.
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