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- [lahrd]
- /lɑrd/
- /lɑːd/
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- [lahrd]
- /lɑrd/
Definitions of lard word
- noun lard the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen. 1
- verb with object lard to apply lard or grease to. 1
- verb with object lard to prepare or enrich (lean meat, chicken, etc.) with pork or fat, especially with lardons. 1
- verb with object lard to supplement or enrich with something for improvement or ornamentation: a literary work larded with mythological allusions. 1
- noun lard Fat from the abdomen of a pig that is rendered and clarified for use in cooking. 1
- noun lard pork fat 1
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Origin of lard
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
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.)
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Parts of speech for Lard
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
lard popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
lard usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for lard
noun lard
- grease — the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- tallow — the fatty tissue or suet of animals.
- oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- ghee — a kind of liquid butter, used especially in the cooking of India, made from the milk of cows or buffaloes and clarified by boiling.
verb lard
- baste — If you baste meat, you pour hot fat and the juices from the meat itself over it while it is cooking.
- pomade — a scented ointment, especially one used for the scalp or for dressing the hair.
- bedeck — If flags or other ornaments bedeck a place, a lot of them have been hung up to decorate it.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
adjective lard
- pot-bellied — a distended or protuberant belly.
- butterball — a chubby or fat person
- paunchy — having a large and protruding belly; potbellied: a paunchy middle-aged man.
- oversize — of excessive size; unusually large: an oversize cigar.
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