bacon
pronunciation
How to pronounce bacon in British English:
UK [ˈbeɪkən]
How to pronounce bacon in American English:
US [ˈbeɪkən]
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- Noun:
- back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
Word Origin
- bacon
- bacon: [12] Originally, bacon meant literally ‘meat from a pig’s back’. It comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *bakkon, which was related to *bakam, the source of English back. It reached English via Frankish báko and Old French bacon, and at first meant ‘a side of pig meat (fresh or cured)’. Gradually it narrowed down to ‘a side of cured pig meat’ (bringing it into competition with the Old English word flitch, now virtually obsolete), and finally to simply ‘cured pig meat’.=> back
- bacon (n.)
- early 14c., "meat from the back and sides of a pig" (originally either fresh or cured, but especially cured), from Old French bacon, from Proto-Germanic *bakkon "back meat" (cognates: Old High German bahho, Old Dutch baken "bacon"). Slang phrase bring home the bacon first recorded 1908; bacon formerly being the staple meat of the working class.
Example
- 1. The chicken never froze , but bacon did .
- 2. Q : do you still like bacon and eggs ?
- 3. The ham and bacon cakes above look deliciously wrong .
- 4. Feel the touch of the " bacon hands " on your legs .
- 5. Serve a blend of fruit or whole grains along with some protein such as canadian bacon or eggs .