different between sausage vs bacon

English

Etymology

From late Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman saussiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin sals?cia (compare Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), neuter plural of sals?cius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?s?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?s?d??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?s?d??/

Noun

sausage (countable and uncountable, plural sausages)

1. A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.
2. A sausage-shaped thing.
3. (vulgar slang) Penis.
4. (informal) A term of endearment.
5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.

Hypernyms

• food
• foodstuff

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• allantois
• haggis
• kishka
• kishke
• pudding
• toad-in-the-hole

Related terms

Translations

Verb

sausage (third-person singular simple present sausages, present participle sausaging, simple past and past participle sausaged)

1. (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

References

• sausage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• List of sausages at Wikipedia

Anagrams

• assuage

English

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 *bak? (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).

Cognate with Old High German bahho, bacho (“back, ham, side of bacon”) (compare Alemannic German Bache, Bachen), Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“side of bacon, ham”), Old English bæc (“back”). More at back.

(police): Extension of pig (“police”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?'k?n, IPA^(key): /?be?.k?n/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n
• Homophone: bakin' (US)

Noun

bacon (usually uncountable, plural bacons)

1. Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
2. Thin slices of the above in long strips.
3. (slang, derogatory) The police or spies.

   Run! It's the bacon!

4. (cycling, slang, uncountable) Road rash.
5. (military, archaic) A saucisse.

Usage notes

In the UK, the word bacon on its own usually refers specifically to loin or back bacon (similar to the US Canadian bacon). In the US, bacon usually refers to side or belly bacon (referred to as streaky bacon in the UK).

Synonyms

• (cut of meat from a pig): ham, pork

Derived terms

Related terms

• back

Descendants

• ? Finnish: pekoni
• ? French: bacon
• ? Italian: beicon
• ? Japanese: ???? (b?kon)
• ? Maori: p?kana
• ? Maltese: bejken
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: bacon, beicon
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: bacon
• ? Polish: bekon
• ? Portuguese: bacon, beicon
• ? Russian: ????? (bekon)
• ? Spanish: bacon, beicon
• ? Swedish: bacon

Translations

See also

• flitch
• gammon
• guanciale
• hock
• pancetta
• green, in the sense of unsmoked
• smoked
• hog
• porcine
• rasher
• slab
• sow
• swine
• bacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bonac, banco

French

Etymology

1899, "thin, smoked lard", from English bacon, from Middle English bacon (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Old French bacon, bacun (“ham, strip of lard”), from Frankish *bakk?, from Proto-Germanic *bak?, *bak?, *bakaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).

Cognate with Old High German bahho, bacho (“back, ham, side of bacon”), Old Saxon baco (“back”), Dutch bake (“side of bacon, ham”), Old English bæc (“back”). More at back.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.k?n/, /be.kœn/

Noun

bacon m (uncountable)

1. bacon

Further reading

• “bacon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.kon/

Noun

bacon m (invariable)

1. bacon

   Synonym: pancetta

Middle English

Noun

bacon

1. Alternative form of bacoun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?k?n/, /bæjk?n/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n, -æjk?n

Noun

bacon n (definite singular baconet)

1. bacon

References

• “bacon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?k?n/, /bæjk?n/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n, -æjk?n

Noun

bacon n (definite singular baconet)

1. bacon

References

• “bacon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• bacon, bacun, bacoun

Etymology

From Frankish *bak?, from Proto-Germanic *bakô.

Noun

bacon m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)

1. bacon, salted pork, ham, shank (of a pig)

Descendants

• Middle French: bacon
• Picard: bacôn (Athois)
• ? Middle English: bacoun
  • English: bacon (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: baucon
  • Yola: bawkoon

Portuguese

Etymology

From English bacon.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?bej.kõ/

Noun

bacon m (plural bacons)

1. bacon (cured meat from the belly, sides or back of a pig)

See also

• toucinho

Spanish

Etymology

From English bacon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?beikon/, [?bei?.kõn]

Noun

bacon m (plural bacons)

1. bacon

Swedish

Etymology

From English bacon.

Noun

bacon n

1. bacon

Declension