sack
The origin and history of sack.
Etymology
From Old English sacc, ultimately from Latin saccus, "large bag," which itself came from Greek and possibly a Semitic source. The "fire someone" sense grew from 19th-century slang about a dismissed worker packing his tools into a sack.
Class of 1800
sack first entered the language around 1800. Other words from the same year:
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