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bacon

(Inglés)

  1. (uncountable, usually) Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
  2. (uncountable, usually) Thin slices of the above in long strips.
  3. (derogatory, slang, uncountable, usually) The police or spies.
  4. (slang, uncountable, usually) Road rash.
  5. (archaic, uncountable, usually) A saucisse.

Frecuencia

B2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈbeɪ.kən/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

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”).

Related words

tocino magro

tocineta Dominican Republic

Panceta

beicon Spain

el beicon

panceta ahumada Uruguay

μπέικον

bekon

boczek

καπνιστό χοιρινό

arvina

Schinkenspeck

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