Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Bladder-of-lard
subs. phr. (common).—A bald-headed person.
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1886. Athenæum, July 31, 142. An elderly Jew money-lender, whom she afterwards describes to her admiring friends as a BLADDER OF LARD, a graceful reference to his baldness and tendency to stoutness.
