flitch

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /flɪtʃ/ Rhymes: -ɪtʃ === Noun === flitch (plural flitches) The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon. A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber). ==== Derived terms ==== Dunmow flitch ==== Translations ==== === Verb === flitch (third-person singular simple present flitches, present participle flitching, simple past and past participle flitched) (transitive) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips. to flitch logs to flitch bacon === References === Shipley, Joseph Twadell (2009): The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Scherer, Philip (1941): Germanic-Balto-Slavic Etyma, Issues 26-34, p. 29