rasher
/ˈraʃə
/noun
A thin slice of bacon: two rashers of lean bacon he cut into one of the rashers on his plate...
- Meanwhile the plate of spare sausage and rashers of bacon was being politely offered around the table.
- An egg and sausage, two rashers of bacon, mushrooms and black pudding, beans and tinned tomatoes filled the plate.
- For food professionals, winter is the time for hearty foods, for steamy fish stews, rashers of bacon, and platter upon platter of broiled meats.
Origin
Late 16th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- bad (or tough or rotten) luck
- bad penny
- bad quarto
- bad seed
- bad-talk
- bad taste
- bad-tempered
- bad-temperedly
- bad trip
- badware
- bae
- Baedeker, Karl
- Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
- Baer, Karl Ernest von
- Baeyer, Adolph von
- peridinian
- peridiniean
- peridinin
- peridiole
- peridium
- peridot
- peridotic
- peridotite
- peridotitic
- peridrome