The word 'tumid' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe something that is swollen or distended, as if it is filled with air or water. For example: She was alarmed by the tumid lump she found on her thigh.
The whole campus was humid with it! tumid with it! lubricated with it! gorged with it! tingling with it! in a state of around-the-clock arousal with it!
The traumatic process of coming into being was Flannagan's most-effective poetic theme; it informed his major works—e.g., Triumph of the Egg (1937 and 1941) and perhaps even the tumid Dragon Motif (1933).
Iceland got used, in the bad years, to receiving tumid little lectures from outsiders on how such simple people allowed themselves to get caught up in a big, bad world beyond their ken — though the truth is that, while Iceland obviously did silly things with banks, they were the same kind of silly things with banks that the masters of civilization were doing in downtown Manhattan.
Anyone watching the videos of the killers hunting down helpless people in a café can have little tolerance for the tumid explanations of their grievances.
As a student, he made surrealistic dream pictures — which are not in the show — partly inspired by his early hero Salvador Dali and hinting, with grisly imagery of severed limbs, at tumid depths that his mature work represses.
The floor of the subway car became the ceiling of the subway car, and he was on his arched back in a waterfall of light, gagging on Old Spice and watching his tumid limbs tear-ass around the car's interior like undone balloons.
Doesn't sound like a compliment to me — it's the kind of phrase I might apply to a tumid piece of writing, in which every minute action is described at nauseating length, without the redemption of brilliant insight or sheer gorgeousness of language.
On the Beach by Neville Shute "We grope together / And avoid speech / Gathered on this beach of the tumid river".
It looks great there, clean but organic — fecund, tumid, enwrapping — and unclassically classical.
For another thing, when we're sitting around the campfire we never speak in the tumid rhetoric of armageddon and violent conflict which Mr. LaPierre and his N.R.A. associates use much of the time.
