lard

noun

• fat from the abdomen of a pig that is rendered and clarified for use in cooking.
• informal excess fat in a person: I’ve got to give up fags and shift some lard he’s just a tub of lard

verb

• 1insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking: he larded the joint with garlic and anchovies
• smear or cover (a foodstuff) with lard or fat to prevent it drying out during storage: farmhouse cheeses are dipped in wax or larded

• 2 (usually be larded with) embellish (talk or writing) with an excessive number of esoteric or technical expressions:his conversation is larded with quotations from Coleridge
• cover or fill thickly or excessively:the pages were larded with corrections and crossings-out