Tard vs Lard - What's the difference?
tard | lard |
(offensive, slang) A person with mental retardation.
(offensive, slang) A person who acts stupidly.
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 nouns the difference between tard and lard
is that tard is a person with mental retardation 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.As a proper noun Lard is
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Alternative forms
* 'tardNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----lard
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(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.