bulge

(bŭlj)

1. A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.

2. Nautical A bilge.

3. A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity: The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment.

v. bulged, bulg·ing, bulg·es

v.intr.

To swell, protrude, or curve outward: a wall bulging after a flood; muscles bulging under a shirt.

v.tr.

To cause to bulge.

[Middle English, pouch, from Old French bulge, bouge, from Latin bulga, bag, of Celtic origin; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots.]

bulg′i·ness n.

bulg′y adj.

Synonyms: bulge, balloon, belly, jut, project, protrude
These verbs mean to curve, spread, or extend outward past the normal or usual limit: a wallet bulging with money; a clown's pants that ballooned at the waist; a sail bellying in the wind; a boulder jutting from the hillside; a deck that projected from the house in back; eyes protruding from their sockets in astonishment.

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bulg•y

(ˈbʌl dʒi)

adj. bulg•i•er, bulg•i•est.

tending to bulge; having a bulge.

[1840–50]

bulg′i•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

bulgy - curving outward

bellying, protuberant, bellied, bulbous, bulging

protrusive - thrusting outward

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Whoever at present drip, like bulgy bottles out of all-too-small necks:--of such bottles at present one willingly breaketh the necks.

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Keggs was a man--one must use that word, though it seems grossly inadequate--of medium height, pigeon-toed at the base, bulgy half-way up, and bald at the apex.

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And Fatty, alias Percival Delaney, a grotesque of manhood, put his bulgy hand to his puffed lips and kissed audibly into the starry vault of the sky.

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He put the plates down on a sideboard, stuffed the silver in his breast pocket, giving it a bulgy look, and ran like a hare (I heard him coming) till he came to the cloak room.

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