bacon | Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Bacon
·noun The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
bacon
To save one's bacon. A vulgar expression, meaning to save one's flesh from injury, to preserve one's...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, and Viscount St. Alban's
(1561-1626) Philosopher and statesman, was the youngest s. of Sir Nicholas B., Lord Keeper, by his ...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Bacon, Roger
(1214?-1294) Philosopher, studied at Oxford and Paris. His scientific acquirements, regarded in tha...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Bacon House
In Noble Street on the boundary of Aldersgate Ward Within. Formerly called Shelly House, as of old b...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
bacon-faced
Full-faced. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bacon fed
Fat, greasy. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
chaw bacon
A countryman. A stupid fellow. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
flick-a-bacon
a flitch of bacon. N. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
bacon, to save
This is an old shore-saw, adopted in nautical phraseology for expressing "to escape," but generally ...

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