hackery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight. India
    — Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas.
  2. Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction. derogatory,slang,uncountable
  3. A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people. India,Sri-Lanka
  4. The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques). slang,uncountable
    — All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java.

词形变化

hackeries plural

词汇关系

近义词
chakra
上位词
oxcart

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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