What does "lard" mean?
Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
Lard
/lɑːd/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
- Grammar: lard is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: acculturate, adipose tissue, advance, aggrandise.
- Useful contrasts: brevity, crisco, defat.
- Usage evidence: As a teenager, Tom used to eat bread and lard.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy. countable, uncountable
"Lard mixed with crushed and strained garlic has been used as an erotic ointment."
- 2 soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog wordnet
- 3 Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 4 Excess fat on a person or animal. countable, slang, uncountable
"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."
Verb
- 1 To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
- 2 add details to wordnet
- 3 To smear with fat or lard.
"In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes."
- 4 prepare or cook with lard wordnet
- 5 To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.
"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.""
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- 6 To fatten; to enrich.
"[The oak] with his nuts larded many swine."
- 7 To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
"Larded with sweet flowers; Which bewept to the grave"
- 8 To embellish with unnecessary frills; to pad.
"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.""
- 9 To grow fat. intransitive, obsolete
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"As a teenager, Tom used to eat bread and lard."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "lard"?
Common synonyms include: acculturate, adipose tissue, advance, aggrandise, aggrandize, ameliorate.
How do you use "lard" in a sentence?
As a teenager, Tom used to eat bread and lard.
How do you pronounce "lard"?
Pronounced /lɑːd/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English lard, from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).
Etymology 2
From Middle English larden, from Old French larder and Medieval Latin lārdō.