Other forms: rashers
A rasher is a thin slice of bacon. Two rashers, a rasher of bacon, grill the rashers.
It is British and applies to bacon and to almost nothing else, which makes it one of the most specific nouns in the language. Streaky and back rashers come from different parts of the pig. It is also the comparative of rash, meaning more reckless.
1nounrasherA thin slice of bacon.
“He fried a couple of rashers and an egg for breakfast.”
rasher is a slice.
The origin is unknown; it may be an alteration of an old word for a scraping or a cut.
Proto-Indo-European
*Hreth₂- — to run, roll
Proto-Germanic
*raskaz
Proto-West Germanic
*rask
Old English
*ræsċ — rash
Middle English
rash
English
rash
English, today
rasher
Built from
From rash + -er. rash The adjective is derived from Middle English rash, rasch (“hasty, headstrong, rash”)rashe, rassh, rasshe, probably from Old English ræsċ (“rash”) (found in derivatives such as ræsċan (“to move rapidly; to flicker; to flash; to glitter; to quiver”), ræsċettan (“to crackle, sparkle”), etc.), from Proto-West Germanic rask, raskī, rasku, from Proto-Germanic raskaz, raskuz, raþskaz, raþskuz (“rash; rapid”), from Proto-Indo-European Hreth₂- (“to run, roll”). The Middle English word was probably influenced by the cognates listed below. The adverb is derived from Middle English rashe (“quickly, rapidly”), from rash, rasch (see above). 2
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