pinguid

adj

pinguid

adj

/ˈpɪŋɡwɪd/

Etymology From Latin pinguis (“fat”) + -id.

1

Relating to fat.

  • Fr. Christopher Maire, far from pallid, wearing no black beyond his Queue-Tie, neither wiry nor unnaturally fit, in Manner as free of the suave as of the pinguid, seems scarcely any Englishman’s idea of a Jesuit.1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 215:
  • First he (Molotov) called on Göring at the Air Ministry where he asked Hitler's 'paladin' more embarrassing questions which the Reichmarschall simply doused with his pinguid heartiness.2003, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar, page 345:
Derived terms
pinguidity

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