bacon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
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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”), 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: bacons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They fried the fish with bacon and were astonished, for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.
It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.
For us the pig's the means, while bacon is the end / Providing gustatory heights to which we can ascend.
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.
gloss: Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
pos: noun
tags: sometimes
uncountable
usually
gloss: Thin slices of the above in long strips.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.
gloss: The police or spies.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: Run! It's the bacon!
gloss: Road rash.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: A saucisse.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: ham
pork
Related words: back
flitch
gammon
guanciale
hock
pancetta
green
in the sense of unsmoked
smoked
hog
porcine
rasher
slab
sow
swine
Derived words: back bacon
bacon and cabbage
bacon and eggs
bacon beetle
baconburger
bacon butty
baconed
baconer
bacon explosion
bacon-faced
bacon fat
bacon-fed
bacon grease
bacon grill
bacon hair
baconize
baconless
baconlike
bacon rind
bacon roll
bacon square
bacontini
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
whatever sizzles your bacon
white bacon
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: spek
lang: Albanian
word: bejkon
lang: Arabic
word: بَاكُون
roman: bākūn
lang: Arabic
word: بَيْكُون
roman: baykūn
lang: Armenian
word: բեկոն
roman: bekon
lang: Asturian
word: tocín
lang: Belarusian
word: беко́н
roman: bjekón
lang: Bengali
word: বেকন
roman: bekon
lang: Bulgarian
word: беко́н
roman: bekón
lang: Burmese
word: ဘေကွန်
roman: bhe-kwan
lang: Catalan
word: cansalada
lang: Chickasaw
word: shokha' nipi' shila'
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 煙肉 /烟肉
roman: jin¹ juk⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 熏鹹肉
roman: xūn xiánròu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 培根
roman: péigēn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 燻肉 /熏肉
roman: xūnròu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鹹肉 /咸肉
roman: xiánròu
lang: Chinook Jargon
word: kushu-iɬwəli
lang: Cornish
word: kig mogh
lang: Czech
word: slanina
lang: Danish
word: flæsk
lang: Danish
word: bacon
lang: Dutch
word: spek
lang: Dutch
word: bacon
lang: Esperanto
word: lardo
lang: Estonian
word: peekon
lang: Finnish
word: kylki
lang: French
word: lard
lang: French
word: lardon
lang: French
word: bacon
lang: North Frisian
word: speek
lang: Galician
word: touciño
lang: Galician
word: panceta
lang: Galician
word: lardo
lang: Galician
word: cebullo
lang: Georgian
word: ბეკონი
roman: beḳoni
lang: German
word: Speck
lang: German
word: Bauchspeck
lang: German
word: Bacon
lang: Greek
word: μπέικον
roman: béikon
lang: Hebrew
word: קותל חזיר
roman: kótel khazír
lang: Hebrew
word: קָתְלֵי חֲזִיר
roman: kotléy khazír
lang: Hindi
word: बेकन
roman: bekan
lang: Hungarian
word: szalonna
lang: Hungarian
word: császárszalonna
lang: Hungarian
word: baconszalonna
lang: Hungarian
word: kolozsvári szalonna
lang: Hungarian
word: angolszalonna
lang: Icelandic
word: flesk
lang: Icelandic
word: beikon
lang: Ido
word: lardo
lang: Indonesian
word: daging babi asap
lang: Indonesian
word: daging asap
lang: Indonesian
word: bakon
lang: Irish
word: bagún
lang: Irish
word: muiceoil shaillte
lang: Italian
word: pancetta
lang: Japanese
word: ベーコン
roman: bēkon
lang: Kazakh
word: бекон
roman: bekon
lang: Khmer
word: សាច់បីជាន់
roman: sac bəy cŏən
lang: Khmer
word: សាច់ជ្រូកបីជាន់
roman: sac cruuk bəy cŏən
lang: Khmer
word: សាច់ជ្រូកខ្វៃ
roman: sac cruuk khvay
lang: Korean
word: 베이컨
roman: beikeon
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бекон
roman: bekon
lang: Ladin
word: ciociul
lang: Latin
word: laridum
lang: Latvian
word: speķis
lang: Lithuanian
word: bekonas
lang: Lithuanian
word: lašiniai
lang: Macedonian
word: сланина
roman: slanina
lang: Malay
word: bakon
lang: Malay
word: dendeng babi
lang: Maltese
word: bejken
lang: Māori
word: pēkana
lang: Marathi
word: बेकन
roman: bekan
lang: Middle English
word: bacoun
lang: Middle English
word: lard
lang: Mongolian
word: утсан гахайн мах
roman: utsan gaxajn max
lang: Navajo
word: bisóodi
lang: Navajo
word: bisóodi bitsįʼ niheeshchʼiizhígíí
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: (røykt) flesk
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bacon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: (røykt) flesk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bacon
lang: Old English
word: spiċ
lang: Iranian Persian
word: بِیکِن
roman: beyken
lang: Iranian Persian
word: لارْد
roman: lârd
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Spakj
lang: Polish
word: boczek
lang: Polish
word: bekon
lang: Portuguese
word: toucinho defumado
lang: Portuguese
word: bacon
lang: Punjabi
word: ਬੇਕਨ
roman: bekan
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸੂਰ ਦਾ ਮਾਸ
roman: sūr dā mās
lang: Romanian
word: bacon
lang: Romanian
word: slănină
lang: Romanian
word: lard
lang: Romansh
word: charnpiertg
lang: Russian
word: беко́н
roman: bekón
lang: Russian
word: ветчина́
roman: vetčiná
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: feòil-mhuice
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сла̀нина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slànina
lang: Sinhalese
word: බේකන්
roman: bēkan
lang: Slovak
word: slanina
lang: Slovene
word: slanina
lang: Spanish
word: tocino
lang: Spanish
word: beicon
lang: Spanish
word: tocineta
lang: Spanish
word: panceta ahumada
lang: Spanish
word: bacón
lang: Swedish
word: bacon
lang: Thai
word: เบคอน
roman: bee-kɔ̂n
lang: Turkish
word: domuz pastırması
lang: Turkish
word: bacon
lang: Ukrainian
word: беко́н
roman: bekón
lang: Unami
word: shikwsu
lang: Urdu
word: بیکَن
roman: bekan
lang: Uzbek
word: bekon
lang: Vietnamese
word: thịt muối
lang: Vietnamese
word: thịt lợn muối xông khói
lang: Volapük
word: pined
lang: Volapük
word: svinapined
lang: Volapük
word: bubapined
lang: Welsh
word: bacwn
lang: Welsh
word: cig moch
lang: Yiddish
word: שפּעק
roman: shpek