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See also:bulgë

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A tent with abulge in the side.

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishbulge(leather bag; hump), fromOld Northern Frenchboulge(leather bag), fromLate Latinbulga(leather sack), fromGaulish*bulga,*bulgos, fromProto-Celtic*bolgos(sack, bag, stomach). Cognate withbilge,belly,bellows,budget,Frenchbouge,GermanBalg, etc.Doublet ofbudge, and from the same root asbelly andbellows. See alsobudget.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bulge (pluralbulges)

  1. An object which issticking out from a surface; aswelling,protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
    abulge in a wall
    There was abulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet.
    • 2018 February,Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, inNational Geographic[1], Washington, D.C.:National Geographic Society,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on14 June 2018:
      Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with thebulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.
    • 2024 February 21, “Network News: Safety changes recommended after train hits collapsed wall”, inRAIL, number1003, page19:
      The collapse happened within three weeks of an examining engineer observing that abulge in the brickwork had increased since a previous inspection.
  2. Thebilge or protuberant part of acask.
  3. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Aroundedfleshymass, such as on acamel orzebu.
    Synonym:hump
  4. (nautical) Thebilge of a vessel.
  5. (colloquial) The outline ofmalegenitals visible through clothing.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:male crotch bulge
    • 2010, Micky Livingston,Seventeen Inches,→ISBN:
      Max looked down and sure as crap, hisbulge was huge, and he started to stammer and stutter and without hesitation said, Holy crap Sandy, look at what you do to me.
    • 2012, D.H.Clark/I.B.Long,A Grasp for Life: The continuing story of Howard Walker,→ISBN, page75:
      As hisbulge begins to swell once again, her hand strokes the length of it through his pants.
    • 2017, Dee Dawning,Extramarital,→ISBN:
      He walked right up to me, the knife poking him in the abdomen, just above hisbulge.
    • 2020 November 11, “What’s it like to be a post-orchiectomy non-op trans woman”, inelilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing[2], archived fromthe original on3 September 2023:
      I'm wearing the same tight panties here as in the video clip above, with girldick nonerect, out to the front and pointing up, which is the position I prefer her to be. This absurdly tight skirt clearly shows too muchbulge (along with hip bones, tummy, specks of dust etc). Personally I thinkbulges are super cute and I'm pissed off that I have to hide mine, but society feels otherwise so let’s try to offset it. (I mean, IRL I still won’t wear this skirt ever ofc 😇, but for science.)
  6. (figurative) A suddenrise in value or quantity.
    • 1930, Stanford University,Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, volume 7, page204:
      A secondbulge 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.

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Translations

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something sticking out

Verb

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bulge (third-person singular simple presentbulges,present participlebulging,simple past and past participlebulged)

  1. (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
    He stood six feet tall, with muscular armsbulging out of his black T-shirt.
    • 1922,Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, inJacob's Room:
      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 shapebulged out; and a silver streak showed in the looking-glass.
  2. (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; toswell; tobelly.
    The submarinebulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.
    • 1977 December 10, Robin E. Smith, “Lesbian Version of 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do'”, inGay Community News, volume 5, number23, page12:
      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 abulging moving van.
  3. (intransitive) Tobilge, as a ship; tofounder.
    • 1739,William Broome, “The Battle of the Gods and Titans”, inPoems on Several Occasions[3], London: Henry Lintot, page253:
      Fatal to Man! at once all Ocean roars,
      And scattered naviesbulge on distant shores.

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Translations

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to stick out from

References

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  • bulge”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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