bulgy
Americanadjective
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
“About 34 percent of the gargoyles have proptosis — you know, bulgy eyes — which goes along with hyperthyroid,” she says with a chuckle.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2022
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.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
“Same old green-looking thing if you ask me. Same bulgy eyeballs. Same stupid thing around his neck”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
Her safety goggles looked like bulgy fly eyes against her narrow face.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
I sit in the bathtub, scraping away at my calves, which I wish were thicker, bulgier, like the calves of cheerleaders, while my brother mutters outside.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
He is very like the late Emperor of the French; but his forehead is bulgier.
From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John
William can carry any number of things in his pockets without making his figure look any bulgier or more unsymmetrical than usual.
From Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel by Kilpatrick, Florence A. (Florence Antoinette)
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