Chebang vs Shebang - What's the difference?
chebang | shebang | Alternative forms |
(archaic) A lean-to or temporary shelter.
*1862 , (Walt Whitman), Journal, December:
*:Their shebang enclosures of bushes.
*1889 ,
*:They say that old pirate, Kingfisher Culpepper, had a stock of the real thing from Robertson County laid in his shebang on the Marsh just before he died.
Any matter of present concern; thing; or business.
*1869 , (Samuel Clemens) ((Mark Twain)), letter to publisher:
*:I like the book, I like you and your style and your business vim, and believe the chebang will be a success.
*1934 , , :
*:"Before I'd share anything with you," he said bitterly, "I’d lose the whole shebang ."
(obsolete) A vehicle.Take our Word
*1871 , December 14, (Samuel Clemens) ((Mark Twain)), “Roughing It” (lecture), printed in Fred W. Lorch, “Mark Twain’s Lecture from Roughing it”, in American Literature , volume 22, number 3 (November 1950), pages 305:
*: […] So they got into the empty omnibus and sat down. Colonel Jack says: “...What is the name of this.” Colonel Jim told him it was a barouche. After a while he poked his head out in front and said to the driver, “I say, Johnny, this suits ''me''. We want this shebang all day. Let the horses go.”
*Shebang.'' ''Cassell's Dictionary of Slang By Jonathon Green, Sterling Pub. Co., Inc. 2006, p. (computing) The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.
Shebang is a alternative form of chebang.
As nouns the difference between chebang and shebang
is that chebang is an archaic spelling of shebang while shebang is a lean-to or temporary shelter.shebang
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Etymology 1
In the sense of “temporary shelter”, it was perhaps brought by US Civil War Confederate enlistees from Louisiana, from (etyl) . The vehicle sense is perhaps from the unrelated (etyl) . The sense of “matter of concern” potentially from either, or onomatopoeia.Alternative forms
* chebang, schebang, sheebangNoun
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* (English Citations of "shebang")Derived terms
* whole shebangReferences
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