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lard up

lard up verb: to prepare a food for cooking by stuffing it with fat.

Verb

lard up (third-person singular simple present lards up, present participle larding up, simple past and past participle larded up)

  1. (literally, transitive) To prepare a food for cooking by stuffing it with fat.
    • Lard up the meat before cooking it.
  2. (intransitive) To become fatter.
    • She's been larding up since Christmas.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To add enticements to (something) to gain support for it.
    • The policy has been larded up to appeal to the leaders.

Forms of lard up

third-person singular presentlards up
present participlelarding up
past participlelarded up
pastlarded up

Questions about lard up

What does lard up mean?
Lard up means to prepare a food for cooking by stuffing it with fat.
What part of speech is lard up?
Lard up is a verb.
What is the past tense of lard up?
The past tense of lard up is larded up.

Words near lard up in the dictionary

  1. Larcombes
  2. Larcoms
  3. LARCs
  4. lard
  5. lard down
  6. lard up
  7. lard-arse
  8. lard-arses
  9. lard-ass
  10. lard-assed
  11. lard-asses

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