SOWBELLY

sowbelly

(noun) salt pork from the belly of a hog carcass

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Etymology

Noun

sowbelly (plural sowbellies)

(US) Salted pork from the belly of a pig.

The process consists of laying a side of bacon, profanely called "sowbelly," flat on the ground, and eliminating, by a dexterous use of the knife...Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society (1918)

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