My Urban Dictionary

tregurtha: ( tre - gur' - tha ) noun; an enormous body or object; an obese person; a mass of flesh just short of monstrous. adjective; rather large and possessing much of the avoir du pois. also tregurthine, tregurthous. verb; to be or become tregurtha-like, to overdose in the eating department, to be over-bulked-up. different forms: intensive: quadgurtha, pentgurtha, etc. or quad-tregurtha, etc. opposite: anti-tregurtha blasphemous: golgurtha equine: hippogurtha or hippotregurtha avian: ornigurtha diminutive: tregurthula examples Lehman Brothers was a truly tregurthine investment bank. WaPo 9/15/2008 Her corsets were possessed of rather enormous stays, like tregurthous guy wires to stabilize her "big top". Thackeray Vanity Fair ...amidst the tregurthine Christmas decorations festooned... Dickens A Christmas Carol etymology Professor Onions of the Ox.Dic.Etym. traces it to the brace of Great Lakes freighters, the Lee and Paul Tregurtha, being very substantial hulls and wonderfully imposing heaps of iron.