bacon
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English[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bacon (usually uncountable, plural bacons)
- Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
- 2006, Pruess, Joanna, Seduced by Bacon, The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 93:
- They fried the fish with bacon and were astonished, for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.
- 2009 March 31, Casey, Laura, “Piggin' out on bacon at S.F.'s BaconCamp”, in San Jose Mercury News[1], retrieved 2010-10-19:
- For us the pig's the means, while bacon is the end / Providing gustatory heights to which we can ascend.
- 2009 August 12, Abraham, Lisa, “Bacon comes home - Old favorite tastes even better when you do the curing yourself”, in Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, page D1:
- Bacon is something that everybody is familiar with and most people grew up eating. It has a comfort aspect to it and a familiarity. It's also got an addictive aspect to it - that sweet and salty combination of flavors. And it's probably just a little bit unhealthy for you. When you get to have bacon, it's exciting and something you look forward to.
- Thin slices of the above in long strips.
- (slang, derogatory) The police.
- Run! It's the bacon!
- (cycling, slang) Road rash.
Usage notes[edit]
In the UK, the word bacon on its own usually refers specifically to loin or back bacon (similar to the US Canadian bacon). In the US, bacon usually refers to side or belly bacon (referred to as streaky bacon in the UK).
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- Finnish: pekoni
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See also[edit]
- flitch
- gammon
- guanciale
- hock
- pancetta
- green, in the sense of unsmoked
- smoked
- hog
- porcine
- rasher
- slab
- sow
- swine
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French[edit]
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 (“back, ham, side of bacon”), Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“side of bacon, ham”), Old English bæc (“back”). More at back.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /be.kɔn/, /be.kœn/
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Noun[edit]
bacon m (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- “bacon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
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bacon m (invariable)
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
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Noun[edit]
bacon n (definite singular baconet)
References[edit]
- “bacon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
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bacon n (definite singular baconet)
References[edit]
- “bacon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French[edit]
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Noun[edit]
bacon m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)
Descendants[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
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bacon m (plural bacons)
- bacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)
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Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
bacon m (plural bacons)
Swedish[edit]
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Noun[edit]
bacon n
Declension[edit]
Declension of bacon | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | bacon | baconet | — | — |
Genitive | bacons | baconets | — | — |
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