abulge
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈbʌld͡ʒ/
Adjective
abulge (not comparable)
- 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,
- 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, 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, 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, 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.
- 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,
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