bulge
/ˈbʌldʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.24 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
noun
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
Example Sentences
- "a bulge in a wall"
- "There was a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet."
- "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 the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards."
- "The collapse happened within three weeks of an examining engineer observing that a bulge in the brickwork had increased since a previous inspection."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-o-s Proto-Celtic *bolgos Gaulish bolgābor. Latin bulgabor. Old Northern French boulgebor. Middle English bulge English bulge 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbʌldʒ/
- British English: /ˈbʌldʒ/
Usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Intransitive verb