Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An Arctic mound or conical hill, consisting of an outer layer of soil covering a core of solid ice.
Wiktionary
- n. geomorphology A conical mound with an ice core (that is, a mound of earth-covered ice), particularly if lasting more than a year; caused by permafrost uplift.
Etymologies
- From Greenlandic or Inuktitut pingu ("small hill"). (Wiktionary)
- Inuit pingu. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Rangers visit a pingo and learn about these national landmarks.”
“TSE, não tente ferrar com o pingo de democracia deste país.”
“Depois de uma hora parado no final da auto-estrada, esta manhã, consegui destruir um par de calças com uma malfadada tinta acrílica azul, daquelas que um simples pingo agoira o fim de qualquer peça de roupa.”
“The weight is slung at either end of the pingo, and the elasticity of the wood accommodates itself to the spring of each step, thereby reducing the dead weight of the load.”
“Singhalese _pingo_, but made from the wood of the _Hibiscus tiliaceus.”
“But the man of course did not move or stand up with his pingo.”
“This done, he took up the pingo and moved away from the spot; but at the distance of about a fathom or two, laid it down again, and ripping open one of the bundles, took out of it all the contents,”
“The elephant placed him down on the ground, put the pingo on his (the man's) shoulder, steadying both the man and the pingo with his trunk and fore-legs.”
“He addresses his works to the people of every country and every age; he calls upon posterity to be his spectators, and says with Zeuxis, _In aeternitatem pingo_.”
“It may eat that partial for the pravachol pingo css to precisely other from your body.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pingo’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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angelcatrom's list
Words I love!
defenestrate, contrafibularity, hootnanny, pingo, escadrille, perspicacious, nonce, aequeosalinocalca..., supercalifragilis..., hapax legomenon, all-a-mort, quantical and 2 more...
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Wordplayer's Wonderful Words
chaparral, grotesque, knork, newsmonger, thitherwards, fackeltanz, kakistocracy, sforzando, compendium, frump, inquere, phosphene and 100 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Loan words from Inuktitut
anorak, igloo, kayak, umiak, nasaaq, kabloona, piblokto, nunatak, pingo
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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glaciation, fluvioglaciation and peri...
pingo, freeze-thaw, loess, solifluction, outwash plain, nivation hollow, drumlin, roche moutonee, ribbon lake, scree slope, blockfield, felsenmeer and 6 more...
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Geology
baraboo, monadnock, peneplain, endrumpf, peneplanation, cairngorm, paleooology, stream capture, allochthon, slickensides, graywacke, tectonics and 56 more...
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over hill
+ elevation
hill, mesa, mountain, hummock, tussock, ridge, butte, knoll, escarpment, tor, bank, bump and 23 more...
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Geologic Delights
hoodoo, tafoni, scree slope, porphyroclast, phenocryst, porphyroblast, fiamme, tephra, pele's hair, pingo, glacial flour, dropstone and 13 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Glacial Effects
albedo, ablation, crevasse, firn, glacial flour, glacial polish, icefall, jokulhlaup, ice sheet, ice shelf, ice cap, ice stream and 82 more...
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Mangomousse's Favorites :]
sfumato, aardvark, cwm, agog, alpenglow, amok, anomaly, apogee, apricity, balalaika, bibulous, bilious and 87 more...
Tweets
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bilby Clean your penguins please! Really, Pro. Mar 18, 2011
Prolagus "Dirt" in Sassarese. Mar 18, 2011
mollusque A rock peak covered by ice but remaining distinguishable; a dome-shaped mound consisting of a layer of soil over a core of ice; a circular depression, frequently water-filled, thought to be the remains of such a mound formed during former periglacial conditions. Dec 31, 2007