Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Arctic mound or conical hill, consisting of an outer layer of soil covering a core of solid ice.
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- noun geomorphology A conical mound with an ice core (that is, a mound of earth-covered ice), particularly if lasting more than a year; caused by
permafrost uplift.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rangers visit a pingo and learn about these national landmarks.
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Rangers visit a pingo and learn about these national landmarks.
February 2009 2009
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TSE, não tente ferrar com o pingo de democracia deste país.
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Depois de uma hora parado no final da auto-estrada, esta manhã, consegui destruir um par de calças com uma malfadada tinta acrílica azul, daquelas que um simples pingo agoira o fim de qualquer peça de roupa.
Pausa Artur 2005
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The weight is slung at either end of the pingo, and the elasticity of the wood accommodates itself to the spring of each step, thereby reducing the dead weight of the load.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857
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This done, he took up the pingo and moved away from the spot; but at the distance of about a fathom or two, laid it down again, and ripping open one of the bundles, took out of it all the contents,
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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The elephant placed him down on the ground, put the pingo on his (the man's) shoulder, steadying both the man and the pingo with his trunk and fore-legs.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Singhalese _pingo_, but made from the wood of the _Hibiscus tiliaceus.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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But the man of course did not move or stand up with his pingo.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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He addresses his works to the people of every country and every age; he calls upon posterity to be his spectators, and says with Zeuxis, _In aeternitatem pingo_.
Seven Discourses on Art Joshua Reynolds 1757
mollusque commented on the word pingo
A rock peak covered by ice but remaining distinguishable; a dome-shaped mound consisting of a layer of soil over a core of ice; a circular depression, frequently water-filled, thought to be the remains of such a mound formed during former periglacial conditions.
January 1, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word pingo
"Dirt" in Sassarese.
March 18, 2011
bilby commented on the word pingo
Clean your penguins please! Really, Pro.
March 19, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word pingo
"The only features of the bright white tundra were pingos--mounds of earth that have been pushed upward when underground water, trapped by permafrost, has frozen and expanded. They looked like giant congealed molehills that were perhaps the height of a person, perhaps many times that. ... I later found out that some of those pingos around Tuktoyaktuk were 150 feet high ... and nine hundred feet in diameter."
--Polly Evans, Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman: Travels with Sled Dogs in Canada's Frozen North (NY: Bantam Dell, 2008), 199-200
January 25, 2017
knitandpurl commented on the word pingo
"What's left behind are new surfaces: kettle moraines, outwash plains, pingos, and scoured barren grounds."
The Future of Ice by Gretel Ehrlich, p 33 of the Vintage paperback edition
August 2, 2019