Etymology

shitstock

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Today it means: A listed company with poor business makeup. Full definition →

English stock ← Middle English stok ← Old English stocc
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*skitiz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*skiti
  3. Proto-West Germanic*skittjā
  4. Old Englishsċitte
  5. Old English*sċite
  6. Middle Englishschite
  7. Englishshit
  8. Proto-West Germanic*stokk
  9. Old Englishstocc
  10. Middle Englishstok
  11. Englishstock
  12. English todayshitstock

From shit + stock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.