Lard

Quick meaning: Lard is a noun meaning Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

Meaning

Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

More Meanings

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
2. To smear with fat or lard.
3. To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.
4. To fatten; to enrich.
5. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
6. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
7. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.

Example Sentences

[The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.

Larded with sweet flowers; Which bewept to the grave

In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.

Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

Word Forms

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• larding
• larded

Synonyms for lard

Depending on context, synonyms include aggrandize, embellish, pad, blow up, dramatize, dramatise.

Related Words

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