rasher

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I answered, "No," but Dr. Johnson said Yes: she is used, madam, to suppers; she would like an egg or two, and a few slices of ham, or a rasher--a rasher, I believe, would please her better How ridiculous!

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  1. noun A thin slice of fried or broiled bacon.
  2. noun A dish or an order of thin slices of fried or broiled bacon.

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  • There was another dish that Her Majesty was very fond of and that was the skin of roast pork cut into very small slices and fried until it curls up like a rasher of bacon. —  Two Years in the Forbidden City
  • He said paying just three pence extra for a rasher of bacon could help support the country's pork industry. —  Mirror.co.uk - News
  • In financial terms it comes down to three pence extra for a rasher of bacon to help our farmers and the lives of pigs. —  Mirror.co.uk - News
  • Mario Batali is a barrel-chested, thick-forearmed American-Italian chef whose love of the pig is so developed, indeed so intense, that for Christmas his kids gave him a scarf woven to look like a rasher of streaky bacon. —  The Guardian World News
  • Watch any of the programmes and it's hard not to be moved by their conclusion: that surely a few extra pence for a rasher of bacon is worth it to end the brutal conditions endured by the average foreign pig. —  The Guardian World News
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. (a) from rash + -er (cf. “rasher on the coals, quasi rashly or hastily roasted”—Minsheu) (see rash, v.); or (b) from rash, slice, + -er; the suffix -er being taken passively in either case.
  2. Perhaps from Spanish rascacio =Portuguese rascacio, also rascas, names of the European Scorpæna scrofa and related fishes.
 

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