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pinguid en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɪŋɡwɪd/

Etymology

From Latin pinguis (“fat”) + -id.

Meanings

1. Relating to fat.
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

pinguidity