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bacon

Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ.kən/

The English word “bacon” has 7 meanings listed here.

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. A similar product made without meat, or from meat other than pork.
  5. The police or spies.
  6. Road rash.
  7. A saucisse.

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…

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