Udhay Shankar N [21/01/10 11:51 +0530]:
One one sense, you're right. The way I heard it, the very cheap
truck/vehicle Suresh is referring to above was actually called a
"jugaad" and the generic usage of the word for any hack of this nature
came later.
Any modern-day Hobsons or Jobsons care to confirm this?
That (cheap truck) is the most common usage - but trying to find etymology
for this is very chicken and egg indeed. As the management prof said in
businessweek, it gets called "good old yankee ingenuity" when farmers turn
their model T into a tractor or hay baler.
