Hash
/hæʃ/noun
To chop into small pieces or a chopped mixture of food.
Did you know?The everyday cooking word and the slang sense “to talk over again” both come from a root tied to cutting or breaking into pieces, not from any mystical source.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*kattōną / *hakkōną
“to hack, chop, cut up”
Old English
OE
hæccean
“to hack, cut with repeated blows”
Middle English
ME
hashen
“to chop meat or other food into pieces”
17th Century
English
hash
“a dish of chopped meat or mixed leftovers”
19th Century
English
hash
“to discuss, revise, or rework something; also a chopped-up mixture”