pinguefaction

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pinguefaction (uncountable)

  1. A making of, or turning into, fat.
    • 1853, George Godfrey Cunningham, A history of England in the lives of Englishmen, volume 6, page 161:
      The spontaneous tendency to pinguefaction would also conduce to quietude of disposition in the animal, and to the more economical and easy satisfaction of the appetite.