English Explanatory Dictionary

bacon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
  2. Such meat from the belly specifically.
  3. Thin slices of the above in long strips.
  4. The police or spies.
  5. Road rash.
  6. A saucisse.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. An unincorporated community in Orange County, Indiana.
  4. An unincorporated community in Moniteau County, Missouri.
  5. A township in Vernon County, Missouri.
  6. An unincorporated community in Coshocton County, Ohio.
  7. A village in Lagunes District, Ivory Coast.

Pronunciation

bā'kən /ˈbeɪ.kən/ En-au-bacon.ogg

Word forms

bacon bacons

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”).

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 Bacon County Baconian Bacon number

Translations

Afrikaans: spek Albanian: bejkon Arabic: بَاكُون Arabic: بَيْكُون Armenian: բեկոն Asturian: tocín Belarusian: беко́н Bengali: বেকন Bulgarian: беко́н Burmese: ဘေကွန် Catalan: cansalada Chickasaw: shokha' nipi' shila' Chinese Cantonese: 煙肉 /烟肉 Chinese Mandarin: 熏鹹肉 Chinese Mandarin: 培根 Chinese Mandarin: 燻肉 /熏肉 Chinese Mandarin: 鹹肉 /咸肉 Chinook Jargon: kushu-iɬwəli Cornish: kig mogh Czech: slanina Danish: flæsk Danish: bacon Dutch: spek Dutch: bacon Esperanto: lardo Estonian: peekon Finnish: kylki French: lard French: lardon French: bacon North Frisian: speek Galician: touciño Galician: panceta Galician: lardo Galician: cebullo Georgian: ბეკონი German: Speck German: Bauchspeck German: Bacon Greek: μπέικον Hebrew: קותל חזיר Hebrew: קָתְלֵי חֲזִיר Hindi: बेकन Hungarian: szalonna Hungarian: császárszalonna Hungarian: baconszalonna Hungarian: kolozsvári szalonna Hungarian: angolszalonna Icelandic: flesk Icelandic: beikon Ido: lardo Indonesian: daging babi asap Indonesian: daging asap Indonesian: bakon Irish: bagún Irish: muiceoil shaillte Italian: pancetta Japanese: ベーコン Kazakh: бекон Khmer: សាច់បីជាន់ Khmer: សាច់ជ្រូកបីជាន់ Khmer: សាច់ជ្រូកខ្វៃ Korean: 베이컨 Kyrgyz: бекон
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