bulge

noun

/ˈbʌldʒ/UK/ˈbʌldʒ/US

Etymology

From Middle English bulge (“leather bag; hump”), from Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), from Gaulish *bulga, *bulgos, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”). Cognate with bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. Doublet of budge, and from the same root as belly and bellows. See also budget.

derived from *bolgos✻ — “sack, bag, stomach”
derived from *bulga✻
derived from bulga — “leather sack”
derived from boulge — “leather bag”
inherited from bulge — “leather bag; hump”

Definitions

1
An object which is sticking out from a surface
An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
- a bulge in a wall
- There was a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet.
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
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1. The bilge of a vessel.
2. 5
  The outline of the penis visible through clothing.
  - Max looked down and sure as crap, his bulge was huge, and he started to stammer and stutter and without hesitation said, Holy crap Sandy, look at what you do to me.
  - As his bulge begins to swell once again, her hand strokes the length of it through his pants.
  - He walked right up to me, the knife poking him in the abdomen, just above his bulge.
3. 6
  A sudden rise in value or quantity.
  - A second bulge in prices occurred during September 30 — October 9. The rise of prices up to October 3 was in part apparently a technical adjustment of the markets, a reaction to the preceding decline.
4. 7
  To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
  - He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
5. 8
  (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out
  (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly.
  - The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.
  - You will return from work one day to an empty, echoing apartment, and the neighbors will tell you that B was last seen driving away in a bulging moving van.
6. 9
  To bilge, as a ship
  To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
  - Fatal to Man! at once all Ocean roars, And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.

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Derived

backbulge, battle of the bulge, bulge bracket, bulge in the onion bag, bulgeless, bulgelike, bulger, bulgy, cockbulge, forebulge, galactic bulge, get the bulge on, girlbulge, manbulge, protobulge, pseudobulge, tentabulge, youth bulge, outbulge, abulge, bulge the onion bag, bulgingly, upbulging

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bulge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at bulge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at bulge

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA