Bacon Definition

bākən
noun
The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.
American Heritage
Salted and smoked meat from the back or sides of a hog.
Webster's New World

Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.

Wiktionary
Thin slices of the above in long strips.
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Noun

Singular:
bacon
Plural:
bacons

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Origin of Bacon

  • From Middle English bacon (“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 *bhAg- (“back, buttocks”). 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French of Germanic origin Old English bæc back

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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