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Bulgy

adjective
1.
Curving outward.  Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, protuberant.






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"Bulgy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the handkerchief, and fastened it over the stopper of the bottle; then she got out a hat trimmed with bows of wide ribbon, and sewed the bottle into the centre bow. It presented rather a bulgy appearance, but by a little pulling of the other trimming it was hardly noticeable, and really nothing is too peculiar to be worn on the head. After that she ...
— The Good Comrade • Una L. Silberrad

... aristocrat. He had only to time himself two minutes before the fish was cleared, become a swift servant, and clear it himself. He put the plates down on a sideboard, stuffed the silver in his breast pocket, giving it a bulgy look, and ran like a hare (I heard him coming) till he came to the cloak room. There he had only to be a plutocrat again—a plutocrat called away suddenly on business. He had only to give his ticket to the cloak-room attendant, and go out again elegantly as he had come in. Only—only ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

... emaciated appearance. She was tall and portly, with plump hands, a broad, benignant face and dimpled, well-nourished cheeks. An acute observer might have detected a danger warning in the sidelong glances of her rather bulgy eyes, and in a certain tightness at the corners of her expansive mouth, which boded ill for any who came within snapping distance, but to a more superficial view she was a rollicking, good-natured figure of a woman. Her mode of address, ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson



Words linked to "Bulgy" :   bulge, protuberant, bulbous, bulging, bellied, bulginess, protrusive



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