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English
Etymology
From Latin pinguis (“fat”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
pinguid (comparative more pinguid, superlative most pinguid)
- 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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