abulge

English

Etymology

a- +‎ bulge

Adjective

abulge (not comparable)

1. Bulging.
   • 1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-Lore of the West Highlands, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 336,^[1]

     It was a bright afternoon, with just enough wind over the quarter to set our lugsail well abulge, and make our little “Penguin” dance merrily over the rippling wavelets.

   • 1964, Clifford Lindsey Alderman, The Vengeance of Abel Wright, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Chapter Fourteen, p. 186,^[2]

     One day that next spring, a long line of wagons jolted over the cartway north from Hadley. They were abulge with everything you could think of. I could see bedsteads and other furniture, rolls of bedding, pots, kettles with gallows crooks to hang them by in a fireplace.

   • 1977, Anthony Burgess, Abba Abba, Boston: Little Brown, Chapter Five, p. 49,^[3]

     The neighbour eater saved his jug with both hands, barking Romanly, eyes abulge, while the wine danced to its resettling.

   • 2001, Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, New York: St. Martin’s Press, p. 176,^[4]

     Small white torpedoes, conical plastic cucumbers featureless and others quite convincing replicas of the real thing, flanged and veined and abulge.

Anagrams

• Beluga, beluga, blague