Talk:rasher

Meaning someone who participates in violent bike races

This can also refer to someone who participates in violent bike races, tho' this use may be restricted to the w:Road Rash games:)--Vladisdead 10:27, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Etymology of "rasher" as a strip of bacon

According to a piece on letter writing by Anne Wharton published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine from March of 1891 Samuel Johnson traced the origin of "rasher of bacon" back to Dryden.

"...he tells her that he rose and looked up the derivation of rasher, tracing it back to Dryden."

"A Lost Art" by Anne H. Wharton from Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, March, 1891.

Two noun entries look identical

Why are there two entries for noun that look identical? If they're somehow different the entries need to do a better job of showing how they differ. Dough34 (talk) 05:10, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

@Dough34 The difference is that sometimes "a rasher" specifically means "a piece of bacon" (e.g. "Jews can't eat rashers" because they're pork), and sometimes "a rasher" is just a unit (like "a strip" or "a teaspoon" or whatever) and you can have a rasher of anything, e.g. "he was eating a rasher of beef jerky". I've tried to make this a little clearer; if you can think of any way to make it clearer, please revise it further. - -sche (discuss) 05:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, that is much clearer Dough34 (talk) 06:31, 24 December 2022 (UTC)