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lardy-dardy

lardy-dardy is the archaic form of lah-di-dah.

Meaning of lah-di-dah

Adjective

lah-di-dah (comparative more lah-di-dah, superlative most lah-di-dah)

  1. (UK, derogatory) Of or from the upper class of society.
  2. (UK, derogatory) Affecting upper-class or superior airs.
    • She was all la-di-da, with her nose in the air, and we were all struggling not to laugh because that would be gauche.

See all 4 meanings of lah-di-dah

Forms of lardy-dardy

comparativemore lardy-dardy
superlativemost lardy-dardy

Questions about lardy-dardy

What is lardy-dardy the archaic form of?
Lardy-dardy is the archaic form of lah-di-dah.

Words near lardy-dardy in the dictionary

  1. lards up
  2. lardy
  3. lardy bread
  4. lardy cake
  5. lardy cakes
  6. lardy-dardy
  7. lare
  8. Lareau
  9. Lareaus
  10. lared
  11. Laredj

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lardy-dardy (page history and authors); lah-di-dah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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