Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash. · To make a quick, rough version. · To transform according to a hash function. · To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. · A confused mess. · The # symbol (octothorpe, pound). · The result generated by a hash function.
From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).
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