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Definition: Bacon |
BaconNoun1. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried. 2. English Franciscan monk and scientist who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292). 3. English statesman and philosopher; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bacon" was first used: sometime around 1330. (references) |
Etymology: Bacon \Ba"con\, noun. [Old French expression bacon, from Old High German. bacho, bahho, flitch of bacon, ham; akin to English back. Compare to Back the back side.]. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | BACON, Francis, either wrote or did not write Shakespeare. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of eating bacon is good, if some one is eating with you and hands are clean. Rancid bacon, is dulness of perception and unsatisfactory states will worry you. To dream of curing bacon is bad, if not clear of salt and smoke. If clear, it is good. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Bacon The Bacon of Theology. Bishop Butler, author of the Analogy. (1692--1752.) Bacon's brazen head. (See Brazen.) To baste your bacon. To strike or scourge one. The Saxons were called "hogs" by their Norman lords. Henry VIII spoke of the common people as the "swinish multitude"; and Falstaff says to the travellers at Gadshill, "On, bacons, on!" (1Henry IV, ii. 2). Bacon is the outside portion of the sides of pork, and may be considered generally as the part which would receive a blow. To save one's bacon. To save oneself from injury. "But as he rose to save his bacon, By hat and wig he was forsaken." Coombe: Dr. Syntax, canto vi. line 240. There seems to be another sense in which the term is used - viz. to escape loss; and in this sense the allusion is to the care taken by our forefathers to save from the numerous dogs that frequented their houses the bacon which was laid up for winter store, the loss of which would have been a very serious calamity. A Chaw-bacon. A rustic. Till comparatively modern times the only meat which rustics had to eat was bacon. I myself know several farm labourers who never taste any meat but bacon, except on club and feast days. He may fetch a flitch of bacon from Dunmow, i.e. he is so amiable and good tempered he will never quarrel with his wife. The allusion is to a custom founded by Juga, a noble lady, in 1111, and restored by Robert de Fitzwalter in 1244; which was, that "any person from any part of England going to Dunmow, in Essex, and humbly kneeling on two stones at the church door, may claim a gammon of bacon, if he can swear that for twelve months and a day he has never had a household brawl or wished himself unmarried." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | Eng. Fibrous carbonate of lime, also known as beef and horseflesh; Isle ofPortland. See also:beef. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BACON. He has saved his bacon; he has escaped. He has a good voice to beg bacon; a saying in ridicule of a bad voice. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bacon is a name for certain cuts of meat taken from the sides or back or belly of a pig, cured and possibly smoked. It is generally considered a breakfast dish, cut into thin slices before being fried, or grilled. It is commonly used as an ingredient in recipes, and is valued both as a source of fat and for its flavour.
A side of unsliced bacon is known as a flitch. An individual slice of bacon is called a rasher. Traditionally the skin is left on the cut and is known as bacon rind. Rindless bacon is also available as a healthier alternative.
Bacon in the United States is predominantly what the British call "streaky bacon" whilst in the United Kingdom and Ireland bacon comes in a wide variety of cuts and flavours.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bacon."
Synonyms: BaconSynonyms: 1st Baron Verulam (n), Baron Verulam (n), Francis Bacon (n), Roger Bacon (n), Viscount St. Albans (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Escape | Verb: escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon, save one's skin; weather the storm; (safe); escape scot-free. |
Redundancy | Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste). |
Safety | Verb: be safe; Adjective:; keep one's head above water, tide over, save one's bacon; ride out the storm, weather the storm; light upon one's feet, land on one's feet; bear a charmed life; escape. |
Size | Large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Evans the Bacon, and Evans the End of the World (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a ; writing credit: Christopher Monger.) Bacon tastes gooood (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) Mmmm unexplained bacon. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Saved my bacon, and no mistake (Rex the Runt; writing credit: Ben Caudell; Peter Holmes) Ordering! 3 pork combos, extra bacon on the side, 2 chili cheese samplers, a basket of liver and onion rings, a catch of the day, and a steak cut in the shape of a trout (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) | |
Lyrics | We took a little bacon and we took a little beans ("The Battle of New Orleans"; performing artist: Johnny Horton) I be Yearning and burning for my mums eggs and bacon (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Clever | The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. (references; author: Bacon) Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. (references; author: Bacon) The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. (references; author: Bacon) Blushing is the livery of virtue, though it may sometimes proceed from guilt. (references; author: Bacon) Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested. (references; author: Bacon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bacon (1959) Bringing Home the Bacon (1941) Bacon Grabbers (1929) Felix Brings Home the Bacon (1924) Bringin' Home the Bacon (1924) | |
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 | A grocery bag spills out junk food (Cheetos, fried pork skins, cookies, cheddar and bacon crackers). There are bananas and oranges hidden in the background. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Color slide shows one slice of fried bacon. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | Members of 17th FAOB at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress L to R - Deily, Bacon, Richey, Harding, Riback, Snyder, Stewart Photo from 17th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Supermarket Bacon and sausage in the Mapledale Giant in Dale City, VA. Credit: USDA. |
 | Gorham Bacon, M.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The Clinic / Peggy Bacon. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Halftone reproduction of and artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 81, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts a scene described by Sergeant Richard Binder, USMC, of the advance of the Navy sharpshooters' unit under Lieutenant Williams, during the Sailors' and Marines' assault on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 15 January 1865. Binder and other surviving members of this party were awarded the Medal of Honor. Credit: NAVY. |  | "An explosion was averted by their quickness." Halftoned artwork by Bacon, depicting Robert Penn's heroism during a fireroom accident on board USS Iowa on 20 July 1898, during the Spanish-American War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in that incident. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Studio for Daniel C. French, Esq. (Glendale, Massachusetts). Floor plan] / Brite and Bacon, arch'ts, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bringing home the bacon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | Age will not be defied. |
| Riches are for spending. | |
| Opportunity makes a thief. | |
| Mysteries are due to secrecy. | |
| In charity there is no excess. | |
| To choose time is to save time. | |
| All colors will agree in the dark. | |
| Nature is commanded by obeying her. | |
| It is natural to die as to be born. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cranly lost his temper and began to talk about Wicklow bacon. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He smelled frying bacon and baking bread |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Try using bacon, ham, or onion to add flavor to vegetables. (references) | |
Bruce Bacon, M.D. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology School of Medicine St. (references) | ||
Foods high in saturated fats such as fatty meats, butter, bacon, cream (light, coffee, sour cream, etc.), and whole milk cheeses are likely to be high in total fat. Most foods with saturated fat are also high in cholesterol because they are fats from animal origin. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" -- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm! Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took, And catalogued each garment in a book. Now, from her leafy covert when she cries: "Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise And scan the list, and say without compassion: "Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion." Sigismund Smith |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bacon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.82% of the time. "Bacon" is used about 1,161 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75.82% | 880 | 8,075 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.01% | 279 | 17,495 |
| Noun (common) | 0.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,161 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bacon" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bacon | Last name | 12,000 | 1,041 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bacon": a rasher of bacon ♦ bacon and eggs ♦ Bacon beetle ♦ bacon County ♦ bacon fat ♦ bacon rasher ♦ bacon rind ♦ bacon strip ♦ bring home the bacon ♦ canadian bacon ♦ Chaw bacon ♦ fat as bacon ♦ Francis Bacon ♦ Lord Bacon ♦ primal pack of bacon ♦ put butter upon bacon ♦ rasher of bacon ♦ Roger Bacon ♦ save one's bacon ♦ save one's own bacon ♦ side of bacon ♦ slice of bacon ♦ To save one's bacon ♦ who brings home the bacon. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bacon": bacon-and-cheddar, bacon-burgers, bacon-cum-ham, bacon-curing, bacon-flavoured, bacon-happy, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, bacon-sizzling, bacon-slicer. | |
Ending with "bacon": chaw-bacon, egg-and-bacon, eggs-and-bacon, liver-and-bacon. | |
Containing "bacon": double-bacon-andegg, guitar-played-as-bacon-slicer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
kevin bacon | 519 | bacon recipe | 35 |
francis bacon | 364 | hot bacon dressing | 35 |
bacon | 352 | kevin bacon nude | 31 |
allyn and bacon | 206 | bacon nitrate free | 30 |
i love bacon | 150 | bacon broccoli salad | 30 |
davis bacon | 135 | bacon and eggs | 27 |
davis bacon act | 125 | bacon shrimp wrapped | 26 |
six degree of kevin bacon | 98 | bacon scallop wrapped | 25 |
roger bacon | 70 | allyn and bacon publisher | 24 |
canadian bacon | 68 | bacon nathaniel | 21 |
kevin bacon movie | 68 | smoked bacon | 21 |
shook hardy and bacon | 61 | mavis bacon | 20 |
the bacon brother | 52 | kevin bacon oracle | 19 |
sir francis bacon | 48 | kevin bacon picture | 19 |
oracle bacon | 44 | microwave bacon | 17 |
bacon press | 43 | roger bacon high school | 17 |
6 degree of kevin bacon | 39 | canned bacon | 17 |
kevin bacon game | 38 | bacon in scallop wrapped | 16 |
davis bacon wages | 37 | bacon picture | 16 |
bacon davis rate wage | 35 | francis bacon artist | 15 |
bacon turkey | 15 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bacon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | proshutë (gammon, ham), pastërma derri. (various references) | |
Arabic | مملح (corned, salt, salted), مقدد (crunchy, slit), لحم خنزير مملح, لحم خنزير مقدد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бекон, пушена сланина. (various references) | |
Chinese | 烟肉, 燻肉 . (various references) | |
Cornish | kýk-mogh. (various references) | |
Czech | slanina. (various references) | |
Danish | bacon (gammon, streak). (various references) | |
Dutch | spek. (various references) | |
Esperanto | lardo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | spik, flesk. (various references) | |
Farsi | گوشت نمک زده ء پهلووپشت خوک . (various references) | |
Finnish | savupekoni (gammon, streak), pekoni (pickled pork, salt pork), ihra (fat), herkkusilava. (various references) | |
French | lard. (various references) | |
Frisian | spek. (various references) | |
German | Speck (bacon fat, beef, blubber, fat, flab), schinkenspeck. (various references) | |
Greek | καπνιστό χοιρινό, μπέικον, μπέικο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קותל חזיר (ham), בשר חזיר (ham, pork). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szalonna, angol szalonna. (various references) | |
Indonesian | lemak babi (lard), daging babi (pork). (various references) | |
Irish | bagún. (various references) | |
Italian | lardo (lard), pancetta affumicata (gammon, streak). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ヘ長調 (a hike in the basic wagebase up, bailout, bake off, baked potato, Bakelite, bakery, baking powder, bare look, bare top, base, base camp, base coach, base down, basement, BASIC, Basic English, bass, bassist, Bayes, Bayesian, Bayrische Motorenwerke, bearing, Beethoven, Behcet, beige, Beirut, Belgrade, beta, betatron, BMW, F major, kiss, salary increase, to base something on, to make something the basis, valium, vector, Vega, veil, version of English with a maximum of 850 basic words). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ベーコン . (various references) | |
Korean | 이컨. (various references) | |
Manx | bagoon. (various references) | |
Maori | peekana. (various references) | |
Norwegian | flesk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aconbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | toucinho (lard), toicinho. (various references) | |
Romanian | slãninã (fat, grease), şuncã (gammon, ham). (various references) | |
Romansch | charnpiertg. (various references) | |
Russian | бекон (sowbelly). (various references) | |
Sepedi | sepeke. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slanina. (various references) | |
Spanish | tocino (pepper). (various references) | |
Sranan | speki. (various references) | |
Swedish | fläsk (flesh, pork), skinka (buttock, cheek, ham, pork), sidfläsk. (various references) | |
Turkish | beykın, tütsülenmiş domuz eti, domuz pastarmasi, domuz pastırması. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виграш (gain, gainings, prize, win, winning), нагорода (award, distinction, guerdon, meed, pay off, payoff, premium, price, prize, reward, testimonial, tribute), бекон (sowbelly), прибуток (benefit, debtor, earnings, emolument, gainings, getting, income, increment, proceeds, profit). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thịt lưng lợn muối xông khói. (various references) | |
Welsh | bacwn, cig moch. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arvina. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bacon": bacons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bacon": chawbacon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bacon": chawbacons. (additional references) | |
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"Bacon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abon, acon, babon, bacan, Bacani, bacau, Baccio, bacco, baci, bacin, bacino, bacio, Backo, Baco, Bacou, Bacum, bafoon, Baicoi, baken, Bakkon, Bakok, Bakool, Bakow, balcan, balcone, balon, Bancone, banon, barcin, Bascom, bashen, basson, bassone, Batco, Bavon, baxon, Bayon, bazon, bbcso, bcn, becan, becon, becos, Becow, bekon, besson, biacon, bicen, Bichon, Bico, bicon, bicot, bijon, Bimco, bipon, Blasson, Boaco, Bocconi, Bocconia, bocn, Bokun, Bracon, buchon, Bucin, Buco, Bwciod, dacon, facon, Iacono, sacon, tacon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bacon" (pronounced bā"kun) |
| 4 | -ā" k u n | awaken, forsaken, Macon, mistaken, reawaken, retaken, shaken, taken, unshaken, waken. |
| 3 | -k u n | falcon, beacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, broken, chicken, darken, deacon, drunken, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, misspoken, outspoken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reckon, republican, second, shrunken, sicken, silicon, slacken, spoken, stricken, sunken, thicken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unspoken, weaken, woken, zircon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: banco. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-n-o" | |
-2 letters: abo, ban, boa, cab, can, cob, con, nab, nob, oca. | |
-3 letters: ab, an, ba, bo, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-n-o" | |
+1 letter: bacons, bancos, beacon, bonaci, carbon, confab, corban. | |
+2 letters: abscond, balcony, bannock, beacons, bonacis, botanic, cabezon, carbons, coalbin, confabs, corbans, corbina, cowbane, jacobin. | |
+3 letters: absconds, anabolic, backbone, bannocks, barranco, baryonic, beaconed, bioclean, boniface, botanica, braconid, bronchia, buoyance, buoyancy, cabezone, cabezons, cabochon, carbinol, carbonic, carbonyl, coalbins, coinable, corbinas, cornball, corybant, cowbanes, jacobins, nonbasic, nonblack. | |
+4 letters: abduction, abiogenic, abjection, absconded, absconder, aitchbone, albinotic, anaerobic, backbones, balconied, balconies, bandicoot, baronetcy, barracoon, barrancos, beaconing, biconcave, binocular, bonifaces, botanical, botanicas, braconids, broaching, brocading, bronchial, buoyances, cabezones, cabochons, canoeable, carbamino, carbanion, carbinols, carbonade, carbonado, carbonara, carbonate, carbonize, carbonyls, chawbacon, cobalamin, cobaltine, combatant, combating, confabbed, connubial, constable, cornballs, cornbread, corybants, countable, countably, incubator, monobasic, nonblacks, noncombat, notchback, obeisance, obscurant, obstinacy, subdeacon, thornback. | |
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