Etymograph

English

fashjacket

Fashjacket comes from English bad-jacket.

  1. English1500–presentbad-jacket
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2016fashjacket

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentbad-jacket
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2016fashjacket

Earliest quotation: 2016, @Kilgoar, Twitter (post): “That type of fashjacketing is very persuasive to wacky…”

A compound of bad + jacket

Proto-Indo-European *bʰaskyo- ‘bundle’

Latin fascis ‘a faggot, fascine’

Italian fascio ‘bundle (of wood)’

Italian fascista ‘fascist’

English fascist

English fash

Middle English badde

English bad

Arabic شَكّ ‘breastplate’

Old French jaque ‘a gambison’

Middle French jacquet

English jacket

Today it means

verb To accuse someone or something of being fascist on tenuous grounds.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / English bad-jacket / fashjacket