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adjective

Turgid adj.

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. "A bladder... held near the fire grew turgid."

Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.

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Etymology of 'Turgid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Turgid" Quotes from Famous Books

... folk to pieces," and so they will be, if honest folk can be found. We will be jolly over our cups, we will have all sorts of vices and whimsies; it will be delicious. We will prove that Voltaire has no genius; that Buffon, everlastingly perched upon his stilts, is only a turgid declaimer; that Montesquieu is nothing more than a man with a touch of ingenuity; we will send D'Alembert packing to his fusty mathematics. We will welcome before and behind all the pigmy Catos like you, whose modesty ...

— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley

... world sometimes got from Townsend was turgid thought conveyed, I will not say in commonplace language, for his style could never be that, but in the language of sobriety, good sense, ...

— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

... his wrist, was a squat, heavily-built, powerfully-muscled man. He was somewhere between thirty-five and forty years of age. I sized him up. In the corners of his eyes I saw humor and laughter and kindliness. As for the rest of him, he was a brute-beast, wholly unmoral, and with all the passion and turgid violence of the brute-beast. What saved him, what made him possible for me, were those corners of his eyes—the humor and laughter and kindliness of ...

— The Road • Jack London

... The turgid lip, the piggish eye, The nose in form of hook, The rings, the pins, you tell them by, The vulgar ...

— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

... all the wather?" exclaimed Jimmie, as they passed the mouth of the Ohio, and could see the great flood of turgid water that was pouring into the Mississippi, there having evidently been something of a ...

— Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise - or, The Dash for Dixie • Louis Arundel

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