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

English

 Bacon (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

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”), 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

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, 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.
  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

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

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

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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

  • IPA(key): /be.kɔn/, /be.kœn/
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Noun

bacon m (uncountable)

  1. bacon

Further reading

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

Pronunciation

Noun

bacon m (invariable)

  1. bacon
    Synonym: pancetta

Further reading

  • bacon in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • bacon in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

bacon

  1. Alternative form of bacoun

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

Noun

bacon n (definite singular baconet)

  1. bacon

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

Noun

bacon n (definite singular baconet)

  1. bacon

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Frankish *bakō, from Proto-Germanic *bakô.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

bacon m (plural bacons)

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

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

Noun

bacon n (uncountable)

  1. bacon

Declension

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

Pronunciation

Noun

bacon m (plural bacons)

  1. bacon

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

From English bacon.

Noun

bacon n

  1. bacon

Declension

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

References

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