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LARDY

Definition: LARDY

LARDY

Adjective

1. Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Usage: LARDY

DomainUsage

Lyrics

I got Hell a shorties, come and askin ya "Where the party", oh lardy, will I ("#1"; performing artist: Nelly)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LARDY

"LARDY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LARDY" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LARDY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mike lardy

16

lardy

3

lardy pierre

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LARDY

Language Translations for "LARDY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), i majmë (adipose, creamy, fat, hefty, pinguid). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

приготвен със свинска мас. (various references)

   

Czech

  

sádelnatý. (various references)

   

German

  

fettig (fat, fattily, fatty, greasily, greasy, oily, oleaginous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szalonnás (clammy, lardaceous, slack-baked). (various references)

   

Manx

  

blonnagagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardylay

   

Portuguese

  

gorduroso (adipose, fat, fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, slick, smeary, tallowy, unctuous), despensa (basement, butting, cellar, closet, pantry, storeroom). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

жирный (adipose, bloated, corpulent, fat, fatty, obese, oily, pinguid, porky, rank, tallowy, thick). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

slaninast. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mantecoso (buttery, greasy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flott (classy, dashing, dripping, grease, high, lard, plush, posh, slap up, slap-up, slick, smart, spanking, stylish, swanky), fet (adipose, bold, corpulent, fat, fatty, fleshly, fleshy, full-fed, greasy, obese, oily, pinguid, rich, ropy, thick). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сальний (greasy, oily, porky, sebaceous, suety, tallowy), жирний (adipose, bacony, beefy, bloated, creamy, fat, fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, smeary, yolky). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhiều m. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: LARDY

Misspellings

"LARDY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alredy, laddy, laidy, Larby, larde, lardo, larey, larky, larly, larod, larsy, lawdy, Laydy, Lladro, lordy, pardy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LARDY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lyard.

Words within the letters "a-d-l-r-y"

-1 letter: aryl, dray, lady, lard, yald, yard.

-2 letters: dal, day, dry, lad, lar, lay, rad, ray, rya, yar.

-3 letters: ad, al, ar, ay, la, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-l-r-y"
 

+1 letter: aridly, darkly, dearly, drably, drawly, hardly.

 

+2 letters: acridly, already, broadly, delayer, dryable, dryland, drywall, durably, grandly, halyard, hardily, lairdly, lanyard, laundry, layered, lyrated, pedlary, pyralid, rabidly, rapidly, readily, relayed, tardily.

 

+3 letters: absurdly, adorably, adroitly, adultery, alderfly, ardently, badgerly, balladry, bladdery, bridally, charlady, coalyard, condylar, cowardly, dapperly, daringly, defrayal, delayers, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, dilatory, dorsally, dotardly, draftily, dreamily, drearily, drywalls, forelady, gardyloo, gravidly, gyroidal, halyards, haulyard, heraldry, idolatry, inwardly, kailyard, kaleyard, ladybird, lampyrid, lanyards, lapidary, lawyered, markedly, parlayed, parleyed, pyralids, radially, raggedly, rancidly, randomly, readably, readerly, repandly, replayed, ribaldly, ribaldry, sacredly, saddlery, solidary, tawdrily, tiltyard, towardly, ultradry, underlay, upwardly, variedly, willyard, wizardly, wordplay, yardland.

 

+4 letters: admirably, admiralty, adoringly, adulatory, adversely, arduously, assuredly, awkwardly, bastardly, blarneyed, blizzardy, chandlery, chrysalid, clepsydra, coalyards, comradely, cordately, cordially, corydalis, darlingly, dastardly, dayflower, defrayals, desirably, dialysers, dialyzers, dietarily, diurnally, dragonfly, drysalter, earlywood, endurably, fairyland, federally, foolhardy, forwardly, frowardly, gargoyled, gradually, guardedly, haggardly, haulyards, holidayer, hydraulic, hydrolase, kailyards, kaleyards, ladybirds, laggardly, lampyrids, laudatory, learnedly, legendary, medullary, modularly, mordantly, niggardly, outwardly, paralysed, paralyzed, parsleyed, polyandry, polyhedra, pyramidal, pyridoxal, quadruply, radiantly, radiately, radically, radiology, redisplay, relatedly, relaxedly, roundelay, skylarked, steelyard, swordplay, thyroidal, tiltyards, underlays, underplay, verdantly, waywardly, wordplays, yardlands.

 

+5 letters: accursedly, acrylamide, adherently, admiringly, affordably, assertedly, auditorily, backwardly, bardolatry, blizzardly, botryoidal, cardinally, cardiology, cardplayer, chrysalids, clepsydrae, clepsydras, cordiality, creditably, dayflowers, debonairly, defrayable, degradedly, depilatory, deplorably, depravedly, dilatorily, downwardly, draggingly, drawlingly, dreadfully, dreamfully, drysalters, drysaltery, durability, dwarfishly, earlywoods, fairylands, formidably, holidayers, hydraulics, hydrolases, hydroplane, hypodermal, ladyfinger, laundryman, laundrymen, lumberyard, measuredly, moderately, modularity, modulatory, myocardial, obdurately, ordinarily, overplayed, pardonably, perdurably, playground, polyhedral, preholiday, preparedly, prodigally, pyridoxals, radiolyses, radiolysis, radiolytic, reanalyzed, redisplays, remedially, repeatedly, residually, roundelays, schoolyard, sluggardly, solidarity, standardly, steelyards, swordplays, toroidally, underplays, undulatory, untowardly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LARDY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 52 44 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    .-.    -..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01010010 01000100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0052 0044 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4635523859

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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