From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Turgid \Tur"gid\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d), a. [L. turgidus, from turgere
to swell.]
1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated;
tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the
body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
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A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
--Boyle.
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2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
[1913 Webster] -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
turgid
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
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" [syn:
puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid]