bacon
/ˈbeɪ.kən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.15 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Bacon is something that everybody is familiar with and most people grew up eating. It has a comfort aspect to it and a familiarity. It's also got an addictive aspect to it - that sweet and salty combination of flavors. And it's probably just a little bit unhealthy for you. When you get to have bacon, it's exciting and something you look forward to."
- "As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg."
- "beef bacon; vegetarian bacon"
Etymology
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”). Cognate with Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“ham, side of bacon”), Old High German bahho (“ham, side of bacon”), whence German Bache f (“wild sow”), Alemannic German Bache m (“bacon”). (police): Extension of pig (“police”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bacoun, -, *bakō, *bakô, *bʰeg-, *bēganą