You can picture a block of soft white pig fat: solid when it is cold, gone in a second in a hot pan, and very hard to miss once it is in something. Half of this word's uses are about that substance itself, and half are about the action of pushing it in, bit by bit, until it is everywhere inside.

可以想成一塊白白軟軟的豬油:冷的時候是固體,一下熱鍋就化掉,而且一旦進到東西裡就很難不被察覺。這個字的用法差不多分成兩半。一半在講那塊油本身,包括身上那一層肉。另一半在講「把它一塊一塊塞進去」這個動作,塞到裡面到處都是為止。

From the word’s history

From Old French lard, which meant bacon, and before that Latin lardum or laridum, bacon fat. That is why the noun (pig fat) and the verb (pushing bacon into meat) are the same word: both start from the fat on a pig.

來自古法文 lard,那個字本來指培根;再往前是拉丁文 lardum/laridum,意思是培根的油。所以名詞的「豬油」和動詞的「把培根塞進肉裡」會是同一個字:兩邊的起點都是豬身上那塊油。

Wiktionary entries for lard (local kaikki extract, source_refs kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:651690004 and :651725498): noun from Middle English lard, Old French lard (bacon), Latin lardum/laridum (bacon fat); verb from Middle English larden, Old French larder.

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