Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To insert something foreign into.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean.
- transitive verb Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant.
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- verb
Bloat orembellish (something) by including (often minor andextraneous ) details at regularintervals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A strange coincidence that Sherwood Smith should use the word "interlard" in his article on info-dumping after my piece on info-dumping was picked up by io9 last week ... and in which I'd written "... the more time the writer has spent researching the details of their world, the more of that research they lard into their story" ...
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Not seldom, in fact, they interlard their plans and hopes for a revival of the sacred liturgy with principles which compromise this holiest of causes in theory or practice, and sometimes even taint it with errors touching Catholic faith and ascetical doctrine.
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This was “fisking,” 17th-century-style: a form of argument beloved by bloggers who cut-and-paste something that offends them and then interlard it with commentary.
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You may sometimes hear some people in good company interlard their discourse with oaths, by way of embellishment, as they think, but you must observe, too, that those who do so are never those who contribute, in any degree, to give that company the denomination of good company.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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The walls dividing continents are breaking down; everywhere European, Asiatic and African will interlard.
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The walls dividing continents are breaking down; everywhere European, Asiatic and African will interlard.
Address at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Charter 2005
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I told her that I well knew that to meet the public taste it was necessary to interlard fiction with risqué things in order to make it sell, but that it was my earnest hope she would in future resist this temptation.
Red Pottage 2004
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His imagination may raise the idol of his heart, unblamed, above humanity; and happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex; but should a grave preacher interlard his discourses with such fooleries?
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I wonder if it is necessary that I pause here, just an instant, and interlard a remark regarding the scene through which I have just traced "Dodd" Weaver.
The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith
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By vulgarity vulgar Jews mean the reproduction of the Hebrew words with which the poor and the old-fashioned interlard their conversation.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
yarb commented on the word interlard
I made the best answer I could to these speeches, which were followed by many others of the same kind, and interlarded with a thousand bows and scrapes.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 16
September 12, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word interlard
As in "You can find the deep-fried bacon cupcakes recipe on the interlard".
January 29, 2010
reesetee commented on the word interlard
HA!
January 29, 2010
yarb commented on the word interlard
I just came here to make the same joke prolagus did 11 months ago. *shakes fist at prolagus*
December 15, 2010
ThatsBaloneyMan commented on the word interlard
Don Quixote!!
"Father and son again wondered at Don Quixote's interlarding of sense and nonsense, and at his mania for devoting himself heart and soul to the search for his adventures and misadventures..."
- tr. John Rutherford, Part II, Ch. XVIII, last paragraph
April 21, 2014