bulgy

[buhl-jee]

adjective

bulgier, bulgiest 

1. tending to bulge; having a bulge.

   a bulgy envelope.

Other Word Forms

• bulginess noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bulgy¹

First recorded in 1840–50; bulge + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Mazie was my sweet girl, a jaunty caramel-colored spaniel with bulgy brown eyes that radiated love, even in her final days when she fell almost every time she tried to stand.

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“About 34 percent of the gargoyles have proptosis — you know, bulgy eyes — which goes along with hyperthyroid,” she says with a chuckle.

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Winslet told the Times Zobel had told her he would cut "a bulgy bit of belly" from her sex scene with co-star Guy Pearce, to which she says she responded, "Don't you dare!"

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Atlas and Pan, for example, are shaped like raviolis or U.F.O.s, with a bulgy center and a flat, tutu-like disc around their middles.

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He has bulgy muscles with a tattooed eagle on his right arm.

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