kluska

Meaning

1. noodle (string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients)
2. kluski (noodles prepared in an ethnic Polish manner; specifically, thin strips of dough, as opposed to filled shells)
3. piece of kluski
4. (colloquial) fatso, butterball (overweight person)
5. (colloquial) dweeb, hacker, klutz, nebbish (clumsy or stupid person)

Hyphenated as

klus‧ka

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈklus.ka/

Etymology

From German Kloß + -ka, perhaps via the Silesian variant Kluß.