lard

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) Excess fat on a person or animal.

Verb

1. 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. To embellish with unnecessary frills; to pad.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow fat.

Synonyms

grease

fat

tallow

oil

pig fat

suet

embellish

interlard

dramatise

dramatize

embroider

pad

blow up

shortening

aggrandize

butter

🧈

aggrandise

rendered fat

salt

🧂

backfat

edible fat

lard oil

axungia

add

saim

adipose tissue

animal fat

bowels

cooking oil

fats

fatty

gas

greasy

lardy

margarine

motor oil

naphtha

oily

season

spice up

wax

Translations

saindoux

Schmalz

manteca

strutto

banha

manteca de cerdo

λαρδί

reuzel

larderen

lardellare

Schweinefett

llard

Schweineschmalz

larder

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɑːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: lard

Inherited from Middle English: larden

In summary

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