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Lards vs Larfs - What's the difference?

lards | larfs |

As verbs the difference between lards and larfs

is that lards is third-person singular of lard while larfs is third-person singular of larf.

As a noun larfs is

plural of larf.

lards

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lard)
    • ----

    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.

    larfs

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (larf)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • larf

    English

    Verb

  • (chiefly, Cockney)
  • *1901 , Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career ,
  • *:The neighbours described me as "a sorrowful lookin' delicate creetur', that couldn't larf to save her life" [...]

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (chiefly, Cockney)

    • References

    * “ larf]” listed in the [2nd edition; 1989