Flitch
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /flɪtʃ/
Origin
Old English fliċċe, from Proto-Germanic *flikjan.
Full definition of flitch
Noun
flitch
(plural flitches)- The side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 95:The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.