Definitions
back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“They fried the fish with bacon and were astonished, for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.”
“It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.”
“For us the pig's the means, while bacon is the end / Providing gustatory heights to which we can ascend.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Breakfast meat strip”5 letters
02“Breakfast meat”5 letters
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