hackery
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Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain. Variously derived from corruption of hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”), from Hindi चक्र (cakra, “wheel”) under influence from -ery, and from Gujarati ચક્રો (cakro, “ox-cart, rickshaw”), the latter two both from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”).
Noun
[edit]hackery (plural hackeries)
- (India) A 2-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
- 1864, The Regulations of the Bengal Code in Force in September 1862, page 1019:
- Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas.
- (India, Sri Lanka) A 2-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From hack + -ery. In its computing sense, from Middle English hakken (“to cut violently or coarsely”) etc., q.v. In its pejorative sense, from hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”).
Noun
[edit]hackery (uncountable)
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
- (slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
- 2012, Seymour Bosworth, M. E. Kabay, Eric Whyne, Computer Security Handbook, page 57:
- All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java.
References
[edit]- “hackery, n1.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn, "Glossary", The Forests and Gardens of South India.
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