English

house plunder

From house + plunder (“(chiefly Southern US, slang, dated) baggage, luggage; household items; personal belongings”).

A compound of house + plunder ‘(chiefly Southern US, slang, dated) baggage,…’

Proto-Germanic *hūsą

Proto-West Germanic *hūs

Old English hūs ‘dwelling’

Middle English hous ‘house’

English house

Middle Low German plunderen

Middle High German plundern

German plündern ‘to loot’

Today it means

noun Miscellaneous household items.

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

Etymograph / house plunder