tumid

adj
/ˈtjuːmɪd/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tum-der. Latin tumeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin tumidusbor. English tumid Borrowed from Latin tumidus (“swollen”).

  1. borrowed from tumidus

Definitions

  1. Swollen, enlarged, bulging.

  2. Cancerous, unhealthy.

  3. Pompous, bombastic.

    • Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tumid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA