bacon
Raw belly bacon or streaky bacon, usually referred to simply as bacon in the US
Meaning
Noun
- Cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig.
- Thin slices of the above in long strips.
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Origin
- From Middle English bacoun ("meat from the back and sides of a pig"), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun, from Old Low Frankish *bakō ("ham, flitch"), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- ("back, buttocks; to vault, arch").
- Cognate with Old High German bahho, bacho (compare Alemannic German Bache, Bachen), Old Saxon baco ("back"), Dutch bake ("side of bacon, ham"), Old English bæc ("back"). More at back.
- Extension of pig.
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