English
hash brownie
From hash (“hashish”) + brownie.
A compound of hash ‘hashish’ + brownie
Frankish *happjā ‘axe’
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Old French hache ‘axe’
Old French hacher ‘to chop up, mince’
Middle French hacher ‘to chop up, mince’
French hacher ‘to chop’
English hash
The story
The name was surely chosen to resemble that of the innocuous hash brown, compare mash in the sense of “(machine) gun”.
Today it means
noun A brownie laced with hashish and eaten for its psychoactive effects.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hash brownie