bacon

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle English bacon (meat from the back and sides of a pig), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (ham, flitch, strip of lard), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (ham, flitch), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (back), from Proto-Indo-European *bhAg- (back, buttocks). Cognate with Old High German bahho, bacho (back, ham, side of bacon) (compare Alemannic German Bache, Bachen), Old Saxon baco (back), Dutch bake (side of bacon, ham), Old English bæc (back). More at back.

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bacon (usually uncountable; plural bacons)

  1. Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
  2. Thin slices of the above in long strips.

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  • (Cut of meat from a pig): ham, pork

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Etymology [edit]

1899, "thin, smoked lard", from English bacon, from Middle English bacon (meat from the back and sides of a pig), from Old French bacon, bacun (ham, strip of lard), from Frankish *bakkō, from Proto-Germanic *bakō, *baką, *bakaz (back), from Proto-Indo-European *bhAg- (back, buttocks). Cognate with Old High German bahho, bacho (Alemannic German Bache, Bachen, back, ham, side of bacon), Old Saxon baco (back), Dutch bake (side of bacon, ham), Old English bæc (back). More at back.

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  • IPA: /be.kɔn/, /be.kœn/
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bacon m (usually uncountable)

  1. bacon

Norwegian Bokmål [edit]

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Borrowing from English bacon

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bacon n

  1. bacon

Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowing from English bacon

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bacon n

  1. bacon

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bacon m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)

  1. pig; swine; hog
  2. ham, or any meat from a pig

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