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Bacon vs Lard - What's the difference?

bacon | lard |

As nouns the difference between bacon and lard

is that bacon is cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig while lard is fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

As proper nouns the difference between bacon and lard

is that bacon is {{surname} while Lard is {{surname|lang=en}.

As a verb lard is

to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

bacon

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • d meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig.
  • *
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  • *
  • Thin slices of the above in long strips.
  • A term of endearment.
    • my sweet bacon
  • A saucisse.
    • (Wilhelm)
  • The police.
    • Run! It's the bacon !

    Synonyms

    * (Cut of meat from a pig) ham, pork

    Derived terms

    * a good voice to beg bacon * bacon and cabbage * bacon fed * bacon-faced * bacon grease * bacon rind * bacony * back bacon * bring home the bacon * Canadian bacon * cottage bacon * get the bacon bad * peameal bacon * Irish bacon * save someone's bacon * side bacon * streaky bacon

    Related terms

    * back

    Descendants

    * Finnish: (l)

    See also

    * gammon * guanciale * hock * pancetta * green, in the sense of unsmoked * smoked * hog * porcine * rasher * sow * swine * (wikipedia "bacon") ----

    lard

    English

    (wikipedia lard)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
  • (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
  • to smear with fat or lard
  • * Somerville
    • In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
  • to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing
  • To fatten; to enrich.
  • * Spenser
    • [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
  • (obsolete) To grow fat.
  • To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Dryden
    • Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.