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.

Derived terms

• pinguidity