It describes hen behaviour and was
coined by translating the German word hackliste; it eventually came to denote "human status
hierarchy"; what phrase is it?
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The word hacklist entered German in the early 1920s. By the
late 1920s, its English loan translation, pecking
order, had appeared in English writing. By 1955, the phrase was
carrying the sense "human status hierarchy."
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