Meanings
comparative more pinguid · superlative most pinguid
- 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 3451 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinpinguis“fat”
- Englishpinguid
From Latin pinguis (“fat”) + -id.
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