lard

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɑːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɑɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

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From Middle English lard, from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).

lard (countable and uncountable, plural lards)

1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
2. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
3. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.
   • 2020, Sophie Ranald, Thank You, Next: A perfect, uplifting and funny romantic comedy

     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.

From Middle English larden, from Old French larder and Medieval Latin lārdō.

lard (third-person singular simple present lards, present participle larding, simple past and past participle larded)

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
2. To smear with fat or lard.
   • 1740, William Somervile, Hobbinol

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

3. To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
4. To fatten; to enrich.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

     [The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.

   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

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

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
6. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v]:

     Larded with sweet flowers ; Which bewept to the grave

   • 1709, J[ohn] Dryden; J[ohn] Oldham, “(please specify the page)”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], OCLC 5001242:

     Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

• ARLD, LDAR, LRAD, darl

From Old French lard, from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).

• IPA^(key): /laʁ/

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lard m (plural lards)

1. bacon
2. lard

• rentrer dans le lard

• “lard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• larde

Borrowed from Old French lard, from Latin lāridum, lārdum.

• IPA^(key): /lard/, /laːrd/

lard (uncountable)

1. Bacon; fatty cured pork.
2. (by extension) Other fatty cured meat.
3. Lard, fat (usually of pigs)

• larden
• lardener
• larder

• English: lard
• Scots: lair, laird (obsolete)

• “lard, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

lard m (oblique plural larz or lartz, nominative singular larz or lartz, nominative plural lard)

1. A cut of meat from a pig.
2. lard (fatty substance)

• French: lard
• → Middle English: lard, larde
  • English: lard
  • Scots: lair, laird (obsolete)

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

lard n (plural larduri)

1. (regional) bacon
2. (regional) pig-fat

• slănină

• lărdos
• lărdar

From Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).

lard m

1. (Puter) bacon

• charnpüerch
• panzetta