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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

bacon

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈbe.kõ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Péigèn/ˈpeɪˈɡɛn/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele gosta de comer bacon no café da manhã."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Thin strips of cured meat from the sides or belly of a pig, typically smoked and fried.

    "He cooked some crispy bacon and eggs for breakfast."
  2. 2

    A colloquial or transliterated reference to the cured pork product within multilingual or Chinese-context digital inputs.

    "The recipe called for finely diced bacon to add a smoky flavor."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a direct pinyin transliteration of the English loanword into Chinese for pork belly strips. It reflects modern linguistic borrowing in East Asian culinary contexts, adapting Western food culture into Mandarin phonology.

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