lardy, a.
(ˈlɑːdɪ)
[f. lard n. + -y.]
Full of or containing lard; fat.
| 1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum I. xiv. 261 Hot tea and ‘lardy cake’ tendered for his refreshment. 1881 Oxfordsh. Gloss. Suppl., Lardy cake, lard cake. Also Fatty-cake. 1888 R. Dowling Miracle Gold I. v. 98 The pallid, lardy, stolid face of the publican. 1892 Daily News 23 Dec. 5/6 A quality of lean and nutritious flesh much superior to the lardy bacons which come from foreign countries. 1933 W. de la Mare Lord Fish 64 She had brought Griselda not only a pitcher of new milk..but some lardy-cakes and a jar of honey. 1970 Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 239/2 Lardy cake, country-style bread-dough cakes which appear in several English counties: Sussex, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire. |