turgent

Latin turgens, turgentis, present participle of turgere (“to swell”).

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt

turgent (comparative more turgent, superlative most turgent)

1. (archaic) swelling, turgid, or tumourous.

   turgent genitals

   turgent sea

   turgent skin

2. (archaic) Bombastic; pompous.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     recompensed with turgent titles

   • 1888, Edmund Finn, The Chronicles of Early Melbourne:

     he re-appeared in the hall, marched to the front door, and looked around him with turgent vanity of a pompous turkey-cock

• “turgent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

turgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of turgeō