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bacon

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

English

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 Bacon (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Etymology

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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”).

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Noun

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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.

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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

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

Derived terms

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French

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Etymology

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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.

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bacon m (uncountable)

  1. bacon

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

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bacon m (invariable)

  1. bacon
    Synonym: pancetta

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

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Middle English

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Noun

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bacon

  1. Alternative form of bacoun

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bacon.

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bacon n (definite singular baconet)

  1. bacon

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Borrowed from English bacon.

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bacon n (definite singular baconet)

  1. bacon

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

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bacon m (plural bacons)

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

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

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bacon n (uncountable)

  1. bacon

Declension

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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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English bacon.

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bacon m (plural bacons)

  1. bacon

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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

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bacon i stekpanna [bacon in a frying pan]

Etymology

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Borrowed from English bacon. First attested in 1924.

Noun

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bacon n

  1. bacon, streaky bacon
    Bacon är rimmat sidfläsk
    Bacon is salt-cured pork belly

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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

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

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