pinguid

English

Etymology

From Latin pinguis (fat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪŋɡwɪd/

Adjective

pinguid (comparative more pinguid, superlative most pinguid)

  1. Relating to fat.
    • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 215:
      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.
    • 2003, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar, page 345:
      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.

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