The Only Use of
turgid
in
The Great Gatsby
- The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.
p. 99.9turgid = overblown and self-important
Definitions:
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(1)
(turgid as in: a turgid speech) excessively pompous or complicated -- often from a self-important source
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(2)
(turgid as in: turgid river) swollen or distended