Rasher

Quick meaning: Rasher is an adjective meaning comparative form of rash: more rash.

Meaning

comparative form of rash: more rash.

More Meanings

1. (UK, Ireland) A strip of bacon; a piece of bacon.
2. (UK, Ireland) A strip, a piece (of something, such as ham, bacon, etc).
3. (transitive) To cut into rashers.

Example Sentences

He received us in his quietly genial fashion, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal.

Would you like a bite of something? None of your damned lawdeedaw airs here. The rich of a rasher fried with a herring?

“A pound of tea at one-and-three, / And a pot of raspberry jam, Two new-laid eggs, a dozen pegs, / And a pound of rashers of ham.”

Thick-cut, thin-cut or flavoured, sometimes there is nothing nicer than a rasher on toast or a crispy rasher as part of a full fry up.

Word Forms

• rashers
• rashering
• rashered

Synonyms for rasher

Depending on context, synonyms include collop, slice, strip.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slice, collop, shag, rack, sward, scrape.

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