tumid

• adj. 肿胀的；浮夸的

1. ostentatiously lofty in style;

"a man given to large talk"

"tumid political prose"

2. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas;

"hungry children with bloated stomachs"

"he had a grossly distended stomach"

"eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"

"swollen hands"

"tumescent tissue"

"puffy tumid flesh"

3. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

My eyelid has been tumid since yesterday.

从昨天起，我的眼皮就肿了。

辞典例句

来自拉丁语 tumere,肿胀，肿大，来自 PIE*teue,肿胀，膨胀，词源同 thigh,tuber.

1. My eyelid has been tumid since yesterday.

从昨天起，我的眼皮就肿了。

来自辞典例句

tumid (adj.)

"morbidly swollen," 1540s, from Latin tumidus "swollen, swelling, rising high," figuratively "swollen with anger or pride," from tumere "to swell," from PIE root *teue- (2) "to swell" (see thigh). Figurative sense in English (in reference to prose, etc.) is attested from 1640s. Related: Tumidity.