bacoun
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun, from Frankish *bakō, from Proto-Germanic *bakô. Compare bak.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbacoun (plural bacouns)
- Cured meat from the back and sides of a pig; bacon.
- Meat from the back and sides of a pig; pork.
- (rare) The corpse of a pig; a dead pig.
Descendants
edit- English: bacon (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: bawcon
- → Welsh: bacwn
- Yola: bawkoon, bawcoon, bacoon, bakoon
References
edit- “bācǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.
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- enm:Meats
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