Bacon is the thin salty strips of pig meat fried crispy for breakfast. Bacon and eggs, crispy bacon, a bacon sandwich.
It is cured with salt and often smoked, and the curing is what makes it bacon rather than pork. British back bacon and American streaky bacon are different cuts, which is why the two countries picture different things. To bring home the bacon means to earn the living. Note that the word came from Frankish.
1nounbaconCured strips of pig meat, usually fried.
“The smell of bacon frying in the pan woke everyone up.”
bacon is a meat.
Old Low Frankish bako meant a ham or flitch, from a Germanic word for the back. Back is a relative.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰeg- — back, buttocks; to vault, arch
Proto-Germanic
*bakô
Frankish
*bakō — ham, flitch
Middle English
bacoun — meat from the back and sides of a pig
English, today
bacon
Built from
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 back, which see for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”). Cognate with Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“ham, side of bacon”), Old High German bahho (“ham, side of bacon”), whence German Bache (“wild sow”), gsw Bache (“bacon”). police Extension of pig (“police”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA