different between butterball vs lardo

English

Etymology

butter +? ball

Pronunciation

Noun

butterball (plural butterballs)

1. A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter, margarine, or a spread
2. (derogatory) An overweight person.
   • 1988, Vicki Lansky, Fat-Proofing your Children – so that they Never Become Diet-Addicted Adults, page 62

     "What if your baby is a butterball? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?."

3. A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola
   • 1917, in the Hunter-Trader-Trapper, volume 34, page 37:

     The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.

4. (Canada, US) A turkey.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fat person

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??.do?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian lardo. Doublet of lard.

Noun

lardo (plural lardos)

1. A type of salumi made by curing strips of fatback with rosemary and other herbs and spices.

Etymology 2

From lard +? -o.

Noun

lardo (plural lardos)

1. (derogatory, slang) An overweight person.

Synonyms

• (overweight person): butterball, chubster, fatso, fatty, jellyroll, lardass, thunder thighs

Translations

Anagrams

• Darlo

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lar.do/
• Hyphenation: lar?do

Noun

lardo (accusative singular lardon, plural lardoj, accusative plural lardojn)

1. bacon

Galician

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lar.do/, [?la?ðo?]

Noun

lardo m (plural lardos)

1. lard, fat (from pork)

Synonyms

• touciño, pingue

Ido

Noun

lardo (plural lardi)

1. bacon

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lar.do/
• Hyphenation: làr?do
• Rhymes: -ardo

Noun

lardo m (plural lardi)

1. cured strips of fatback (for cooking)

Verb

lardo

1. first-person singular present indicative of lardare

Anagrams

• darlo
• ladro
• lorda

Latin

Noun

l?rd?

1. dative singular of l?rdum
2. ablative singular of l?rdum

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?do/, [?la?.ð?o]

Noun

lardo m (plural lardos)

1. lard

Derived terms

• lardero