What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Shebang vs Jingbang - What's the difference?

shebang | jingbang |

As nouns the difference between shebang and jingbang

is that shebang is a lean-to or temporary shelter while jingbang is thing, lot, shebang.

shebang

English

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, sheebang

Noun

(-)
  • (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.”

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "shebang")

    Derived terms

    * whole shebang

    References

    *Shebang.'' ''Cassell's Dictionary of Slang By Jonathon Green, Sterling Pub. Co., Inc. 2006, p. 1261

    Etymology 2

    , after Etymology 1.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Synonyms
    * hashbang

    jingbang

    English

    Alternative forms

    * jing-bang

    Noun

    (head)
  • (colloquial, chiefly, Scotland) thing, lot, shebang
  • * 1886 , :
    • It made my heart bleed; but the men had a great respect for the chief mate, who was, as they said, "the only seaman of the whole jing-bang , and none such a bad man when he was sober."
  • * 1918–1920 , :
    • Bloom was pointing out all the stars and the comets in the heavens to Chris Callinan and the jarvey: the great bear and Hercules and the dragon, and the whole jingbang lot.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
  • *:And he called them Bloody Scotch savages , and was in an awful rage and at the term-time he had them sacked, the whole jing-bang of them, so sore affronted he had been.