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Greasy vs Lardy - What's the difference?

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Greasy is a synonym of lardy.


As adjectives the difference between greasy and lardy

is that greasy is having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease while lardy is resembling or containing (perhaps an excess of) lard.

As a noun lardy is

(slang|pejorative) an obese person.

greasy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.
    • a greasy mineral
  • * Shakespeare
    • With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.
  • Containing a lot of grease or fat.
  • * 2010 , Gavin Hoffen, Dandelion (page 3)
    • With a skin full of alcohol and a probable overwhelming desire for a greasy kebab, I had evidently got myself into such a state that I was unable to locate the correct door to the fast food shop.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 3 , author=Felicity Cloake , title=How to cook perfect garlic bread , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Nigel and Richard Bertinet go for butter. Jamie and Nigella both opt for olive oil, and Garten uses a mixture, spreading the bread generously with butter, then topping it with garlic and herbs in olive oil. Oil, to my taste, simply makes the bread seem greasy : it's great for dipping, but it doesn't seem to soak into the bread in the same way as butter – I've probably just got hopelessly rich Anglo-Saxon tastes, but for me, it's butter all the way.}}
  • (slang) detestable, unethical.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2004 , month=April 25 , title=Trailer Park Boys epsiode "Rub N Tiz'zug" citation , passage=Julian:'' We're gonna fill the trailers up with furniture all right, boys, but we're gonna rent them out by the hour.
    ''Bubbles:     Aw, that's greasy .}}
  • (obsolete) fat, bulky
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent
    • (Marston)
  • (of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.

    • Derived terms

    * greasy spoon

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    lardy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling or containing (perhaps an excess of) lard.
  • (colloquial, pejorative, of a person) fat or overweight.
  • * 1997 August 14, "The Prince of Lies" (username), "ABOUT VIRGINIA'S PARENTIAL NOTICE LAW", in talk.abortion, Usenet :
    • Go back to snarfling down your microwave lasagna, you lardy bitch.
  • * 1999 January 20, "susanna9988" (username), "Troll Striptease 7", in alt.fan.karl-malden.nose, Usenet :
    • Look, Jeffy didn't start this, you lardy bitch. He tried to tell you.
  • * 2003 May 3, "Fred" (username), "Unwanted Emails!", alt.fan.scarecrow, Usenet :
    • Well as you mentioned it. It's that fucking useless fat arse lardy bitch at Energis, you know the one who eats at [...]

    Derived terms

    * lardy cake

    Noun

    (lardies)
  • (slang, pejorative) An obese person.
  • * 1989 , Weekly World News (14 February 1989, page 14)
    • Funny Roseanne isn't kidding when she pushes for ladies to become lardies .
  • * 2003 July 8, "NMcD32" (username), "Help Needed ! ! ! Please Help", uk.rec.bodybuilding, Usenet :
    • You mentioned that your wife used to be a lardy and now she isn't. Did the pair of you train and diet together or was her approach more the weight watchers, slow pace jogging type?
  • * 2004 , Warwick Allen, Sweat , page 286:
    • And as for the equipment they use, let's just say that Lance Armstrong won't be winning the Tour de France on one. In fact he probably wouldn't be able to turn the pedals, especially with a couple of lardies like us in the back, [...]
  • A lardy cake.
  • * 1985 , Jane Grigson, Jane Grigson's British cookery , page 32:
    • ‘A bloomer, a Hovis, thank you, that's all ... oh, and put in a couple of lardies .’ Naturally, home-made lardy cake is even feggier than the baker’s. His aim is to put in as little lard, fruit and sugar as he can get away with: yours is, or should be, to cram in as much as possible.
  • * 1997 March 30, "Paul Louis" (username), "Why are Americans such wankers.", alt.nuke.europe, Usenet :
    • >Hmmm. American food is sugary? Not as sugary as the stuff they sell at
    >Somerfield's and Sainsbury's and ASDA--whole aisles of cookies and tea
    >biscuits. Ribena instead of fresh juice. No English muffins (which are
    >actually American) but lots of lardies !
  • * 2001 October 16, "Stephen Toogood" (username), "What is Twinkies?", alt.usage.english, Usenet :
    • But Lardy Cake isn't really a London thing anyway. Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire is to my mind the epicentre of lardies .

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