Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bending outward; bulging: as, “bulgy legs,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.
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- adjective Having one or more
bulges ;bulging
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective curving outward
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Examples
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"For love of John Thomas McGuire!" burst forth the "bulgy" woman, finally finding her voice.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Margaret Penrose
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She was, as Amy whispered, a "bulgy" person, but her calico wrapper was fairly clean; and although she sat down and took up her youngest to rock to sleep while she talked (being too busy a woman to waste any time visiting) she impressed the girls from Roselawn rather favorably.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Margaret Penrose
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They always seem kind of bulgy when they’re sewn together intact.
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Former Corrie serial killer Gray O'Brien Tony, the Scottish one with the weird bulgy eyes and Tessa Peake-Jones of Only Fools And Horses fame form half the cast of a four-hander about a love triangle with four corners: two men, one woman and a therapist.
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And finally, a tanned, spiky-haired guy with bulgy eyes and a very intense look on his face called: wait for it ......
Archive 2010-01-01 alison 2010
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Lee Bontecou/FreedmanArt, New York Lee Bontecou's 'Untitled' 2004-11 In the late 1950s and early '60s, as the only female in the stable of Leo Castelli's top-o'-the-heap gallery, Ms. Bontecou fabricated big, rough, bulgy wall reliefs in canvas and steel.
Abstract (Semi) and Phantasmagorical Peter Plagens 2011
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Former Corrie serial killer Gray O'Brien Tony, the Scottish one with the weird bulgy eyes and Tessa Peake-Jones of Only Fools And Horses fame form half the cast of a four-hander about a love triangle with four corners: two men, one woman and a therapist.
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And Fatty, alias Percival Delaney, a grotesque of manhood, put his bulgy hand to his puffed lips and kissed audibly into the starry vault of the sky.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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Make a spectacle of himself in those lime-green spandex bicycle shorts, it's almost the same as walking around naked, all the bulgy parts showing.
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Now she set the figure on a pedestal, a blank-faced, bulgy-eyed little goat gazing into space, its wide stubby tail sweeping over its back while it grasped a large baseball in its hand; a sort of ghoulish beauty now emanated from the figure.
Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan 2009
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