Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To insert something foreign into: interlarded the narrative with witty remarks.
Wiktionary
- v. Bloat or embellish (something) by including (often minor and extraneous) details at regular intervals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean.
- v. Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant.
WordNet 3.0
- v. introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions
Etymologies
- From the literal sense of “to intersperse with alternate layers of lard (and/or other fats)”, existing since Middle English, from French entrelarder, from entre-, “inter-” + larder, “to lard”. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English interlarden, to mix fat into, from Old French entrelarder : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + larder, to lard (from lard, lard; see lard). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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" ...”
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“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
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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
“Boswell to the status of a mere "reporter" or "authority," to repeat his stories and records of conversation in any language but his own, to interlard them with the comments and reflections of a superior wisdom, seems to us a sort of moral offence as well as an impertinence.”
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘interlard’.
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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meaty
sarcasm, carnal, flesh, fleshly, interlard, offal, sarcoma, meatspace, carnivorous syndrome, protocarnivorous, paracarnivorous, subcarnivorous and 32 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Mélange
doggerel, odsbodkins, platitudinous, ennui, strappleberry, stygian, inchoate, incipient, deleterious, gnarled, troglodyte, interlocutor and 96 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2001
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
acclimate, stentorian, expeditious, proselytize, equable, sacrosanct, indefatigable, gravid, hyperbole, funereal, flibbertigibbet, vet and 353 more...
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Angharad's Words
filtrum, aglet, cathect, anent, crepuscular, rigmarole, exert, liripipe, pekoe, perfuse, langerhans, vegemite and 41 more...
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Verbs
divvy, rive, calve, surmise, forfeit, bandy, wade, trumpet, raze, stultify, jettison, dissimulate and 11 more...
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The Solitary Vice: Against Reading
Word's gathered while reading The Solitary Vice by Mikita Brottman
meringue, bibliomancer, grimoire, vampiric, bibliofessional, otherworld, kestrel, winkle-picker, bluestocking, carrel, interlard, bibiolatry and 42 more...
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Interesting Words 1
Some words that piqued my interest
catachresis, rhotacism, mytacism, metanalysis, logomachy, cacoepy, cacodoxy, sesquipedalian, acyrology, cacozelia, brachylogy, solecism and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for interlard.

yarb I just came here to make the same joke prolagus did 11 months ago. *shakes fist at prolagus* Dec 15, 2010
reesetee HA! Jan 29, 2010
Prolagus As in "You can find the deep-fried bacon cupcakes recipe on the interlard". Jan 28, 2010
yarb 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 Sep 12, 2008