lardy
Americanadjective
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like or consisting of lard.
lardy pastry.
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fat or becoming fat.
a diet designed for the lardy figure.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of lardy
Example Sentences
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It has its own lardy animal sort of flavor.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2020
Even before the fat fracas ignited a war of facts, it had already dragged New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg into the lardy mix.
From Time Magazine Archive
No 17th century European painter could possibly have produced a sillier work than Jos� Antolinez's trio of lardy, simpering cherubs posing as The Christian Soul Torn Between Vice and Virtue.
From Time Magazine Archive
There, cuddled in the haymow, were Grommet, the smith’s lardy daughter, and the pockmarked pig boy from the manor.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
The skim-milk of life's for the many, the lardy few lap up the cream, And all talk about trimming the balance is rubbish, a mere Roosso's Dream!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 by Various
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