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bacon

See also: Bacon, bacón, baćon, báçoⁿ, and bà con

English edit

 Bacon (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

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”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).

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.

(police): Extension of pig (“police”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

 
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, 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.
  2. Thin slices of the above in long strips.
  3. (slang, derogatory) The police or spies.
    Run! It's the bacon!
  4. (cycling, slang, uncountable) Road rash.
  5. (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

  • (cut of meat from a pig): ham, pork

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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/
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Noun edit

bacon m (uncountable)

  1. bacon

Further reading edit

Italian edit

 
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bacon m (invariable)

  1. bacon
    Synonym: pancetta

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

  1. Alternative form of bacoun

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English bacon.

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Noun edit

bacon n (definite singular baconet)

  1. bacon

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bacon n (definite singular baconet)

  1. bacon

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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)

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

Descendants edit

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

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Noun edit

bacon m (plural bacons)

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

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Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

Noun edit

bacon n (uncountable)

  1. bacon

Declension edit

declension of bacon (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) bacon baconul
genitive/dative (unui) bacon baconului
vocative baconule

Spanish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bacon m (plural bacons)

  1. bacon

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

From English bacon.

Noun edit

bacon n

  1. bacon

Declension edit

Declension of bacon 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative bacon baconet — —
Genitive bacons baconets — —

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