bacon
Plural: bacons
Noun
- Cured meat from the sides and back of a pig.
- back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
- English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
- English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
- Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
- Thin slices of the above in long strips.
- The police or spies.
- Road rash.
- A saucisse.
Examples
- He was hoping to bring home the BACON with his next high-scoring play.
- Run! It's the bacon!
Origin / 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
1st Baron Verulam, Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Roger Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, ham, pork
Scrabble Score: 9
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