Lars vs Lard - What's the difference?
lars | lard |
Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
(obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
(cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
to smear with fat or lard
* Somerville
to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing
To fatten; to enrich.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To grow fat.
To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
* Dryden
As proper nouns the difference between lars and lard
is that lars is a given name derived from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones while Lard is {{surname|lang=en}.As nouns the difference between lars and lard
is that lars is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals while lard is fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.As a verb lard is
to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.lars
English
Etymology 1
From modern Scandinavian Lars. English terms derived from North Germanic languagesEtymology 2
From (etyl) Lareslard
English
(wikipedia lard)Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
- [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
- Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
- (Shakespeare)
- Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.