单词 | macon |
释义 | maconn.2 British. Now historical. During the Second World War (1939–45): mutton salted and smoked like bacon. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > salted meat Martinmas meatc1450 Martinmas beefc1475 powder beef1479 Martinmas flesh1656 Irish horse1748 bully1753 junk1762 salt junk1792 salt horse1836 red horse1864 hunter's beef1879 bullamacow1887 Jack1890 macon1939 1939 Daily Express 22 Nov. Macon has now been adapted by other newspapers as a name for mutton bacon. This is only the latest of many words and phrases originally coined in this office which have later been used generally. 1939 News Rev. 30 Nov. 15 Macon, the Scottish dish which may eke out any wartime shortage of bacon. Macon is mutton cured in the same way as bacon. 1968 Punch 7 Feb. 177/2 The Ministry of Food then stood in for Mrs. Beeton, instructing them how to..work wonders with such unlikely raw materials as macon (bacon made from mutton, children)..and..coelacanth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21939 |
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