▪ I. macon2
(ˈmeɪkən)
[f. mutton + bacon.]
During the 1939–45 war: mutton salted and smoked like bacon.
| 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. 1939 Times 7 Dec. 10/4 Macon was introduced..at the Savoy Hotel yesterday... Mr. Cecil Rodd, introducing macon..said he did not pretend to know how the word macon came into being; it just happened. 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. |
▪ II. macon
obs. form of Mahound, mason.