bacon
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- enPR: bā'kən, IPA(key): /ˈbeɪ.kən/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪkən
- Homophone: bakin' (US)
Noun
[edit]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[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, 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
[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).
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: бекон (bekon)
- → 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
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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
- bacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- IPA(key): /be.kɔn/, /be.kœn/
Audio (Paris): (file) Audio (Paris): (file) Audio (France, Normandy): (file)
Noun
[edit]bacon m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “bacon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bacon m (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- bacon in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- bacon in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bacon
- Alternative form of bacoun
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bacon n (definite singular baconet)
References
[edit]- “bacon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bacon n (definite singular baconet)
References
[edit]- “bacon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Frankish *bakō, from Proto-Germanic *bakô.
Noun
[edit]bacon oblique singular, m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)
Descendants
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]bacon m (plural bacons)
- bacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)
See also
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.
Noun
[edit]bacon n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bacon m (plural bacons)
Usage notes
[edit]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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English bacon. First attested in 1924.
Noun
[edit]bacon n
Usage notes
[edit]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
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | bacon | bacons |
definite | baconet | baconets | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
References
[edit]- English terms inherited from Middle English
- 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 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪkən
- Rhymes:English/eɪkən/2 syllables
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English slang
- English derogatory terms
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Cycling
- en:Military
- English terms with archaic senses
- en:Meats
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeg- (bend)
- French terms borrowed from English
- French unadapted borrowings from English
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Middle English
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Meats
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian unadapted borrowings from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛkon
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛkon/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Meats
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from English
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/eːkən
- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/æjkən
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms spelled with C
- Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns
- nb:Meats
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from English
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Norwegian Nynorsk/ɛɪːkən
- Rhymes:Norwegian Nynorsk/eːkən
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms spelled with C
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- nn:Meats
- Old French terms borrowed from Frankish
- Old French terms derived from Frankish
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- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- fro:Animals
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
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- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
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- Romanian terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eikon
- Rhymes:Spanish/eikon/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
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- sv:Meats