interlard

[ in-ter-lahrd ]

verb (used with object)

1. to diversify by adding or interjecting something unique, striking, or contrasting (usually followed by with ):

   to interlard one's speech with oaths.

2. (of things) to be intermixed in.
3. Obsolete. to mix, as fat with lean meat.

interlard

/ ˌɪntəˈlɑːd /

verb

1. to scatter thickly in or between; intersperse

   to interlard one's writing with foreign phrases

2. to occur frequently in; be scattered in or through

   foreign phrases interlard his writings

Other Words From

• inter·lar·dation inter·lardment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of interlard¹

First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English interlarden, enterlarde, from Middle French entrelarder, equivalent to entre “between,” from Latin inter + larder “to cook with lard or bacon fat”; inter- + lard

Example Sentences

She knew two other methods also—either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie.

From Literature

Kraus writes that when reporting is mixed with loftier forms the two modes “interlard” each other; interlarding is the word Franzen uses in his second novel, Strong Motion, to describe the mingling of news and non-news in the “news with a twist” served up by a dying radio station.

From Slate

Mashallah, Inshallah, interlard all conversation.

From Project Gutenberg

Interlard, in-tėr-l�rd′, v.t. to mix in, as fat with lean: to diversify by mixture.

From Project Gutenberg

They would fain usurp the Title of Highnesses, which is given them by their Domestics, and many poor Gentlemen, who interlard it with abundance of Monseigneurs.

From Project Gutenberg