Masculine
Speck
Meaning
- (masculine, strong) bacon, fatty cellular tissue under the porkrind
- (colloquial, masculine, strong) adipose tissue, bodyfat
Synonyms
Fettgehalt
Schinkenspeck
fetter Teil des Fleisches
Schweinespeck
Fettpolster
Fettmasse
Hüftspeck
Frequency
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
spägg
St. Gallen
schpäak
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃpɛk/
Etymology
From Middle High German spec, from Old High German spek, from Proto-West Germanic *spik, from Proto-Germanic *spiką. Cognate with Old English spic (whence English speck).
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