Pinguid

//ˈpɪŋɡwɪd// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From Latin pinguis (“fat”).

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