Bacon

Noun

 * 1) Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig, particularly, or sometimes other animals.
 * 2) Thin slices of the above in long strips.

Adjectives for Bacon
crisp; tender; tasty; mouldy; crackling; rank; sizzling; tempting.

Thesaurus
butt, chitterlings, cochon de lait, cracklings, fat back, flitch, gammon, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, jambon, jambonneau, lard, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, pork, porkpie, salt pork, side of bacon, small ham, sowbelly, suckling pig, trotters

Etymology
From bacon:, from  bacon:, bacun:, from Old Low  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with bahho:, bacho: (compare  Bache:, Bachen:),  baco:,  bake:,  bæc:. More at.

Synonyms

 * ham, pork

Derived terms

 * bacon and cabbage
 * bacony
 * bacon grease
 * back bacon
 * bring home the bacon
 * Canadian bacon


 * cottage bacon
 * get the bacon bad
 * Irish bacon
 * save someone's bacon
 * side bacon
 * streaky bacon

Related terms

 * back

Descendants

 * Finnish: pekoni