English Online Dictionary. What means bacon? What does bacon mean?
English
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
- enPR: bā'kən, IPA(key): /ˈbeɪ.kən/
- Rhymes: -eɪkən
- Homophone: bakin' (US)
Noun
bacon (usually uncountable, plural bacons)
- Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
- Thin slices of the above in long strips.
- (slang, derogatory) The police or spies.
- Run! It's the bacon!
- (cycling, slang, uncountable) Road rash.
- (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
Related terms
- back
Descendants
- → Finnish: pekoni
- → French: bacon
- → Italian: beicon
- → Japanese: ベーコン (bēkon)
- → Maori: pēkana
- → Maltese: bejken
- → Norwegian Bokmål: bacon, beicon
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: bacon
- → Polish: bekon
- → Portuguese: bacon, beicon
- → Russian: бекон (bekon)
- → Spanish: bacon, beicon
- → Swedish: bacon
Translations
See also
- flitch
- gammon
- guanciale
- hock
- pancetta
- green, in the sense of unsmoked
- smoked
- hog
- porcine
- rasher
- slab
- sow
- swine
- bacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Bonac, banco
French
Etymology
1899, "thin, smoked lard", 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”).
Cognate with Old High German bahho, bacho (“back, ham, side of bacon”), Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“side of bacon, ham”), Old English bæc (“back”). More at back.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be.kɔn/, /be.kœn/
Noun
bacon m (uncountable)
- bacon
Further reading
- “bacon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English bacon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛkon/
Noun
bacon m (invariable)
- bacon
Synonyms
- pancetta
Middle English
Noun
bacon
- Alternative form of bacoun
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English bacon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beːkən/, /bæjkən/
- Rhymes: -eːkən, -æjkən
Noun
bacon n (definite singular baconet)
- bacon
References
- “bacon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English bacon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beːkən/, /bæjkən/
- Rhymes: -eːkən, -æjkən
Noun
bacon n (definite singular baconet)
- bacon
References
- “bacon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- bacon, bacun, bacoun
Etymology
From Frankish *bakō, from Proto-Germanic *bakô.
Noun
bacon m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)
- bacon, salted pork, ham, shank (of a pig)
Descendants
- Middle French: bacon
- Picard: bacôn (Athois)
- → Middle English: bacoun
- English: bacon (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: baucon
- Yola: bawkoon
Portuguese
Etymology
From English bacon.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbej.kõ/
Noun
bacon m (plural bacons)
- bacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)
See also
- toucinho
Spanish
Etymology
From English bacon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbeikon/, [ˈbei̯.kõn]
Noun
bacon m (plural bacons)
- bacon
Swedish
Etymology
From English bacon.
Noun
bacon n
- bacon