lard
Plural: lards
Noun
- soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
- Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
- Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
- Excess fat on a person or animal.
Verb
Verb Forms: larded, larding, lards
- To add fat or rich material; to intersperse or embellish.
- prepare or cook with lard
- "lard meat"
- add details to
- To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
- To smear with fat or lard.
- To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.
- To fatten; to enrich.
- To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
- To embellish with unnecessary frills; to pad.
- To grow fat.
Examples
- He tried to ’LARD’ his vocabulary with obscure words to impress his Scrabble club.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lard, from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).
Synonyms
aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad
Scrabble Score: 5
lard: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlard: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lard: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary