abulge

English

Etymology

a- +‎ bulge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbʌld͡ʒ/

Adjective

abulge (not comparable)

1. Bulging.
   • 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,^[1]

     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.

   • 1964, Clifford Lindsey Alderman, chapter 14, in The Vengeance of Abel Wright‎^[2], Garden City, New York: Doubleday, page 186:

     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.

   • 1977, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in Abba Abba‎^[3], Boston: Little Brown, page 49:

     The neighbour eater saved his jug with both hands, barking Romanly, eyes abulge, while the wine danced to its resettling.

   • 2001, Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger‎^[4], New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 176:

     Small white torpedoes, conical plastic cucumbers featureless and others quite convincing replicas of the real thing, flanged and veined and abulge.

Anagrams

• Beluga, beluga, blague