Tumescent (adj)
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Swollen or becoming swollen, especially as a response to sexual arousal.
(especially of language or literary style) pompous or pretentious.
Mid 19th century: from Latin tumescent- ‘beginning to swell’, from the verb tumescere, from tumere ‘to swell’.
Example sentences
“My editor said that using tumescent(1) in my erotic fiction made the whole thing slightly tumescent(2).”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
