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Synonyms for bacon

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bey-kuh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbeɪ kən

Définition of bacon

Origin :
  • early 14c., "meat from the back and sides of a pig" (originally either fresh or cured, but especially cured), from Old French bacon, from Proto-Germanic *bakkon "back meat" (cf. Old High German bahho, Old Dutch baken "bacon"). Slang phrase bring home the bacon first recorded 1908; bacon formerly being the staple meat of the working class.
  • noun flitch
Example sentences :
  • Finished our bacon this morning, and for the future will only have damper and tea.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • But honesty don't get you bread or bacon, not in this world!
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • I got here about the right time of day to save your bacon, anyway.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • If intended for poultry, the slips of bacon should not be thicker than a straw.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Cale-cannon is eaten with corned beef, boiled pork, or bacon.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • If there are yellow streaks in the lean of the bacon, it is rusty, and unfit to eat.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Serve them up hot, and eat them with corned pork, or with bacon.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • I wait on him hand and foot; I cook his bacon jest like he tol' me you did it fer him.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • Bacon and greens and her perennial tea were good enough for her.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • His subaltern, Bacon, had been the first to pass the gap, and had been killed on emerging.
  • Extract from : « With Manchesters in the East » by Gerald B. Hurst

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