pinguid

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They thrive (as we said) in the most sterile places, yet will grow in better, but not in over-rich, and pinguid.

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  1. adjective Fat; oily.

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  • They thrive (as we said) in the most sterile places, yet will grow in better, but not in over-rich, and pinguid. —  Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
  • Cut it from the pinguid rump. —  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
  • The air from _Oberon, Ocean, thou mighty monster_, is so grand that scarcely a singer can be found today capable of interpreting it, although many sopranos puff and steam through it, for all the world like pinguid gentlemen climbing the stairs to the towers of Notre Dame. —  The Merry-Go-Round
  • Sometimes they thought themselves fortunate could they secure a few pigeons, at others, they revelled in pinguid plenty, -- kangaroos roasted whole, fat ibis, flying foxes in scores, and ducks by the dozen. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
  • Besides, we daily see what course lands will bear these stocks (suppose them oaks, wall-nuts, chess-nuts, pines, firr, ash, wild-pears, crabs, &c.) and some of them (as for instance the pear and the firr or pine) strike their roots through the roughest and most impenetrable rocks and clefts of stone it self; and others require not any rich or pinguid, but very moderate soil; especially, if committed to it in seeds, which allies them to their mother and nurse without renitency or regret: And then considering what assistances a little care in easing and stirring of the ground about them for a few years does afford them: What cannot a strong plow, a winter mellowing, and summer heats, incorporated with the pregnant turf, or a slight assistance of lime, loam, sand, rotten compost, discreetly mixed (as the case may require) perform even in the most unnatural and obstinate soil? —  Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
 

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  1. Latin pinguis + -id (as in liquid).

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  1. With unorig. termination -id (apparently in imitation of liquid, etc.); = Spanish Portuguese Italian pingue, from Latin pinguis, fat.
 

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