flitch
English
Etymology
From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke.
Pronunciation
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Noun
flitch (plural flitches)
- The flank or side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 95:
- The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 95:
Translations
side of bacon
Verb
flitch (third-person singular simple present flitch, present participle es, simple past and past participle flitched)
- (transitive) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
- to flitch logs
- to flitch bacon
References
- Shipley, Joseph Twadell (2009): The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
- Scherer, Philip (1941): Germanic-Balto-Slavic Etyma, Issues 26-34, p. 29
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