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protruding |
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protruding adjective sticking out, projecting, prominent, swollen, standing out, bulging, overhanging, jutting (out), bulbous, distended, obtrusive, protuberant protruding ears Translations protruding adj → vorstehend; rock, ledge → vorstehend, herausragend; ears → abstehend; eyes → vortretend; forehead, chin → vorspringend; stomach → vorstehend, vorspringend; teeth → vorstehend; ribs → hervorstehend, hervortretend How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The tire of the front wheel had been pierced, and a great thorn was protruding from the place. Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Moliere with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air; he was an honest fellow, with a pleasant face, lips a trifle protruding, soft-mannered and serviceable, with a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend. He stood red-faced and blinking, with his crooked arms outstretched, while a male hand, protruding from the window, kept piling up upon him a series of articles the sight of which filled the curious old ladies with bewilderment. |
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