jingbang

See also: jing-bang

English

Alternative forms

• jing-bang

Etymology

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Noun

jingbang (plural jingbangs)

1. (chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A thing, a lot, a shebang.
   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Go to Sea in the Brig ’’Covenant’’ of Dysart”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 61:

     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."

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: The Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 225:

     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”, in A Scots Quair, Polygon, published 2006, page 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.