bulge
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), of Gaulish origin. Cognates includes bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc.
Noun[edit]
bulge (plural bulges)
- Something sticking out from a surface.
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Translations[edit]
Something sticking out
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Verb[edit]
bulge (third-person singular simple present bulges, present participle bulging, simple past and past participle bulged)
- (intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).
- The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.
- He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The wind actually stirred the cloth on the chest of drawers, and let in a little light, so that the sharp edge of the chest of drawers was visible, running straight up, until a white shape bulged out; and a silver streak showed in the looking-glass.
- (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
- Broome
- And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.
- Broome
Translations[edit]
To stick out from
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