Etymology

fashjacket

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Today it means: To accuse someone or something of being fascist on tenuous grounds. Full definition →

English bad-jacket ← Middle French jacquet ← Middle English badde
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The story

  1. Latinfascis
  2. Italianfascio
  3. Italianfascista
  4. Englishfascistclip.
  5. Englishfash
  6. Middle Englishbadde
  7. Englishbad
  8. Middle Frenchjacquet
  9. Englishjacket
  10. Englishbad-jacket
  11. English todayfashjacket

From fash + bad-jacket.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.