bacon
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English
Etymology
From Middle English bacoun (“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”), an extension of *baką, whence English back, which see for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).
Cognate with Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“ham, side of bacon”), Old High German bahho (“ham, side of bacon”), whence German Bache f (“wild sow”), Alemannic German Bache m (“bacon”).
(police): Extension of pig (“police”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bacon (usually uncountable, plural bacons)
- Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
- 2006, Joanna Pruess, 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, Laura Casey, “Piggin' out on bacon at S.F.'s BaconCamp”, in San Jose Mercury News, 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, Lisa Abraham, “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 or spies.
- Run! It's the bacon!
- (cycling, slang, uncountable) Road rash.
- (military, archaic) A saucisse.
Usage notes
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).
Synonyms
Derived terms
- back bacon
- bacon and cabbage
- bacon and eggs
- bacon beetle
- baconburger
- bacon butty
- baconed
- baconer
- bacon explosion
- bacon-faced
- bacon-fed
- bacon grease
- bacon grill
- baconize
- baconless
- baconlike
- bacon rind
- bacon square
- baconweed
- bacony
- bring home the bacon
- Canadian bacon
- carrot bacon
- chawbacon
- cottage bacon
- eggs and bacon
- facon
- fakon
- fry someone's bacon
- good voice to beg bacon
- Irish bacon
- macon
- peameal bacon
- pig upon bacon
- pull someone's bacon out of the fire
- save someone's bacon
- side bacon
- side of bacon
- steal the bacon
- streaky bacon
- turkey bacon
- whale bacon
- white bacon
Related terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: бекон (bekon)
- → Chinese: 培根 (péigēn)
- → Finnish: pekoni
- → French: bacon
- → Hebrew: בייקון
- → Italian: becon
- → Japanese: ベーコン (bēkon)
- → Maori: pēkana
- → Maltese: bejken
- → Norwegian Bokmål: bacon, beiken
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: bacon, beiken
- → Polish: bekon
- → Portuguese: bacon
- → Russian: бекон (bekon)
- → Spanish: bacon, beicon
- → Swedish: bacon
Translations
cut of meat
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thin slice of pork
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See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bacon m or n (uncountable)
- back bacon
- Coordinate term: ontbijtspek
- Hypernym: spek
French
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing 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 *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).
Attested since 1899.
Pronunciation
Noun
bacon m (uncountable)
Further reading
- “bacon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.
Pronunciation
Noun
bacon m (invariable)
Further reading
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
bacon
- Alternative form of bacoun
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bacon n (definite singular baconet)
References
- “bacon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bacon n (definite singular baconet)
References
- “bacon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- bacun, bacoun
Etymology
From Frankish *bakō, from Proto-Germanic *bakô.
Noun
bacon oblique singular, m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)
Descendants
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.
Pronunciation
Noun
bacon m (plural bacons)
- bacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)
See also
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.
Noun
bacon n (uncountable)
Declension
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.
Pronunciation
Noun
bacon m (plural bacons)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
bacon n
Usage notes
Normally reserved for thin-cut, American-style / streaky bacon made from pork belly. Thick-cut bacon is fläsk. Referring to thick-cut bacon as bacon will likely confuse many native Swedish speakers, as most are bound to be unaware that bacon can be thicker in English.
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | bacon | bacons |
definite | baconet | baconets | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
References
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