bilge

See also: Bilge

English

Etymology

Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɪld͡ʒ/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

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

Translations

rounded portion of a ship's hull

Dutch: pastoor (nl) m
Finnish: palle (fi)
Galician: varenga f
Hebrew: שִׁפּוּלַיִם (he) m pl (shipulayim)
Maori: papakairā
Polish: obło (pl) n
Spanish: sentina (es) f

lowest inner part of a ship's hull

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: جَمَّة f (jamma), إِنْكِلِيَّة f (ʔinkiliyya)
Catalan: sentina f
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: dno lodi n
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: kielruimte f, lensruimte f, buik (nl) m
Estonian: pilss
Finnish: pilssi (fi)
French: fond de cale (fr), sentine (fr) f
German: Bilge (de) f
Greek: σεντίνα (el) f (sentína)
Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: שִׁפּוּלַיִם (he) m pl (shipulayim)
Ido: bilgo (io)
Italian: sentina (it)
Maori: riu, pāwai, paewai
Polish: zęza (pl) f, zenza f
Russian: дни́ще (ru) n (dníšče)
Sicilian: sintina f
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: kölrum n, hålskepp n

bilge water

Catalan: aigua de sentina f
Estonian: pilsivesi
Finnish: pilssivesi (fi)
German: Bilgewasser (de) n
Greek: σεντινόνερο (el) n (sentinónero)
Hebrew: מִי שִׁפּוּלַיִם (he) m pl (mey shipulayim)
Italian: sentina (it) f
Latin: sentina f
Serbo-Croatian: kaljuža (sh) f
Sicilian: sintina f
Swedish: kölvatten (sv) n

nonsense

Catalan: estirabot (ca) m
Czech: kecy m pl, žvásty m pl
Italian: fesserie f pl, idiozie (it) f pl, sciocchezze (it) f pl
Sicilian: fissarìi f pl, babbarijati f pl, minchiati (scn) f pl

Verb

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.

Related terms

Translations

to bulge

Finnish: pullistua (fi), paisua (fi)

Anagrams

blige, gibel

Turkish

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /bilˈɟe/

Adjective

bilge

wise, sage, profound
Synonym: hakim

Noun

bilge (definite accusative bilgeyi, plural bilgeler)

wise person
polymath