bilge
See also: Bilge
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]bilge (countable and uncountable, plural bilges)
- (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
- (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
- (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
- (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
- talk bilge
- complete bilge
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which the Notorious Criminal Gets what the British Law Considers to be His Deserts”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "The whole thing is the most absolute bilge and a disgrace to our legislature."
- The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
Derived terms
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[edit]rounded portion of a ship's hull
lowest inner part of a ship's hull
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bilge water
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nonsense
Verb
[edit]bilge (third-person singular simple present bilges, present participle bilging, simple past and past participle bilged)
- (nautical, intransitive) To spring a leak in the bilge.
- (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
- (nautical, transitive) To break open the bilge(s) of.
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[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀 (b²il²ga /bilge/, “wise”), from 𐰋𐰃𐰠 (b²il² /bil-/, “to know”) + 𐰏𐰀 (ga /-ge/). Compare bil- (“to know”). Fallen into disuse since the 15th century, but revived in 1935 in the campaign by the Türk Dil Kurumu to replace many loanwords by words with native Turkic roots.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bilge
Noun
[edit]bilge (definite accusative bilgeyi, plural bilgeler)
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