lard
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to apply lard or grease to.
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to prepare or enrich (lean meat, chicken, etc.) with pork or fat, especially with lardons.
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to supplement or enrich with something for improvement or ornamentation.
a literary work larded with mythological allusions.
noun
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the rendered fat from a pig, esp from the abdomen, used in cooking
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informal excess fat on a person's body
verb
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to prepare (lean meat, poultry, etc) by inserting small strips of bacon or fat before cooking
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to cover or smear (foods) with lard
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to add extra material to (speech or writing); embellish
Other Word Forms
- lardlike adjective
- overlard verb (used with object)
- unlarded adjective
- well-larded adjective
Etymology
Origin of lard
1300–50; Middle English (v.), late Middle English (noun) < Middle French larder (v.), lard (noun) < Latin lār ( i ) dum bacon fat; akin to Greek lārīnós fat (adj.)
Example Sentences
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I set a skillet on the stove, waited until it was hot enough to fry nails, and dropped the potatoes and a scoop of hog lard in it.
From Literature
He is incessantly screaming at us to eat concoctions such as beer-battered meatball sandwiches, wrapped in a pizza and deep-fried in lard.
From Salon
"We just put lard on them and it takes off. I'm laughing, but it's how it is," he told AFP during a visit of the company factory.
From Barron's
Those who lived in the countryside were more likely to cherish memories of lard than olive oil; having a pig to slaughter could get a struggling family through the year.
But Mr. Youngkin’s idea of readying sites is probably better, from a market point of view, than larding up companies with public money.
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