abulge

/əˈbʌld͡ʒ/

abulge adjective: bulging.

Adjective

abulge (not comparable)

Bulging.
- 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.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
- 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.1964, Clifford Lindsey Alderman, chapter 14, in The Vengeance of Abel Wright, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, page 186

The neighbour eater saved his jug with both hands, barking Romanly, eyes abulge, while the wine danced to its resettling.1977, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in Abba Abba, Boston: Little Brown, page 49:
Small white torpedoes, conical plastic cucumbers featureless and others quite convincing replicas of the real thing, flanged and veined and abulge.2001, Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 176:

From a- + bulge.

What does abulge mean?: Abulge means bulging.
How do you use abulge in a sentence?: The neighbour eater saved his jug with both hands, barking Romanly, eyes abulge, while the wine danced to its resettling.
What part of speech is abulge?: Abulge is an adjective.
How do you pronounce abulge?: Abulge is pronounced /əˈbʌld͡ʒ/.

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