Word of the Day – Turgid

Turgid (adj)

tur-jid

Swollen and distended or congested: (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic.

This describes my entire post Christmas period so far.

Example sentences

“The river is a brown, turgid worm as broad as a peaty salmon-spawn stream.”

“The majority of them are written in a boring, turgid style.”