bacon

Etymology

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

• enPR: bā'kən, IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪ.kən/
• Rhymes: -eɪkən
• Homophone: bakin' (US)

Noun

Raw belly bacon or streaky bacon, usually referred to simply as bacon in the US

Raw back bacon, usually referred to simply as bacon in the UK

bacon (usually uncountable, plural bacons)

1. 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, 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.

2. Thin slices of the above in long strips.
3. (slang, derogatory) The police.

   Run! It's the bacon!

4. (cycling, slang) Road rash.

See also

• flitch
• gammon
• guanciale
• hock
• pancetta
• green, in the sense of unsmoked
• smoked
• hog
• porcine
• rasher
• slab
• sow
• swine
• bacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bonac, banco

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /be.kɔn/, /be.kœn/

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Noun

bacon m (uncountable)

1. bacon

Further reading

• “bacon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛkon/

Noun

bacon m (invariable)

1. bacon

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beːkən/, /bæjkən/
• Rhymes: -eːkən, -æjkən

Noun

bacon n (definite singular baconet)

1. bacon

References

• “bacon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beːkən/, /bæjkən/
• Rhymes: -eːkən, -æjkən

Noun

bacon n (definite singular baconet)

1. bacon

References

• “bacon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• bacon, bacun, bacoun

Noun

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

1. bacon, salted pork, ham, shank (of a pig)

Etymology

From English bacon.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbej.kõ/

Noun

bacon m (plural bacons)

1. bacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)

See also

• toucinho

Noun

bacon m (plural bacons)

1. bacon

Etymology

From English bacon.

Noun

bacon n

1. bacon

Declension