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Bulgy

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bulge  (blj)
n.
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.
4. An advantage.
v. bulged, bulg·ing, bulg·es
v.tr.
To cause to curve outward.
v.intr.
1. To curve outward.
2. To swell up.
3. To stick out; protrude.
4. To be filled or overfilled: pockets bulging with coins.

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

bulgi·ness n.
bulgy adj.
Synonyms: bulge, balloon, belly, jut, overhang, project, protrude
These verbs mean to curve, spread, or extend outward past the normal or usual limit: a wallet bulging with money; expenses ballooning; a sail bellying in the wind; a pipe jutting from his mouth; overhanging eaves; projecting teeth; a head protruding from the window.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.bulgy - curving outward
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.
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.
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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