lard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English lard, from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).
Inflected forms:
form: lards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: larding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: larded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: larded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lard mixed with crushed and strained garlic has been used as an erotic ointment.
gloss: Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Excess fat on a person or animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: My wonderful partner is fond of pointing out that he and I have done the Covid crisis on easy mode: we have no children, no caring responsibilities, […] we have a fabulous community of people at our local fitness studio to keep the lockdown lard at bay and the cats love joining us for afternoon naps.
gloss: To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
pos: verb
gloss: To smear with fat or lard.
pos: verb
examples: In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
gloss: To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.
pos: verb
examples: The first notice came from — of course — a Trump tweet, after his meeting with Barr on the question of voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election. Barr made a point of noting the topic in his resignation letter, which was larded with slavish praise for the president's accomplishments in the face of what Barr called "relentless, implacable resistance."
gloss: To fatten; to enrich.
pos: verb
examples: [The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.
Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
gloss: To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
pos: verb
examples: Larded with sweet flowers; Which bewept to the grave
Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
gloss: To embellish with unnecessary frills; to pad.
pos: verb
examples: Ultimately, the plans were rejected by Senate leadership, Cruz told reporters, after he and a number of others objected. "That proposal did not carry the day," Cruz said. "Those $350bn in tax increases are not in the bill ... and larding the bill up with new tax increases would have been going the wrong direction."
Volkswagen avoided the fins and other frills with which U.S. manufacturers larded their vehicles. Instead, the company and its advertising agency, Doyle Dane Bernbach, promoted "our philosophy of a car that doesn't change for the reason of change, only for the benefit of the consumer," Mr. Hahn said at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011.
gloss: To grow fat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Derived words: Amerilard
bald as a bladder of lard
enlard
interlard
lardaceous
lardarse
lard-arse
lardass
lard-ass
lardassed
lard-assed
lardball
lardboy
lardbucket
lard-bucket
lardbutt
lard down
lardhead
lardless
lardlike
lardon
lardoon
lard up
lardy
lardy cake
leaf lard
tubbalard
tubba lard
tub of lard
unlarded
larding needle
overlard
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