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Lards vs Lars - What's the difference?

lards | lars |

As a verb lards

is third-person singular of lard.

As a proper noun Lars is

a given name derived from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.

As a noun lars is

plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.

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.

    lars

    English

    Etymology 1

    From modern Scandinavian Lars. English terms derived from North Germanic languages

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • occasionally given to Anglophones.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) Lares

    Proper noun

    (en-proper noun) (plurale tantum)
  • , the classical Roman household deities
    • Related terms
    * lar ----