bacon
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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 *bakko (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakkōn (“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)
- Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig, particularly, or sometimes other animals.
- Thin slices of the above in long strips.
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- Finnish: pekoni
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- gammon
- guanciale
- hock
- pancetta
- green, in the sense of unsmoked
- smoked
- hog
- porcine
- rasher
- sow
- swine
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[edit] French
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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”), of Germanic origin, from Low Frankish *bakko, from Proto-Germanic *bakkō(n), *bakan, *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: /bɛj.kɔ̃/
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bacon m. (usually uncountable)
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bacon n.
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bacon n.
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bacon m. (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- en:Meats
- en:Pigs
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Middle English
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Germanic languages
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- fr:Meats
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål borrowed terms
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk borrowed terms
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- fro:Animals