Masculine
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Speck

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) bacon, fatty cellular tissue under the porkrind
  2. (colloquial, masculine, strong) adipose tissue, bodyfat

Synonyms

Fettgehalt

Schinkenspeck

fetter Teil des Fleisches

Schweinespeck

Fettpolster

Fettmasse

Hüftspeck

Translations

Frequency

C1
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

spägg

St. Gallen

St. Gallen

schpäak

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃpɛk/
Etymology

In summary

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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