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
“Same old green-looking thing if you ask me. Same bulgy eyeballs. Same stupid thing around his neck”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
Alternately bulgy and sleek, hairy and shticky, they make for often-amusing company, even if this time Zoe Saldana, as Gamora, the green-skinned Amazon with grave daddy issues, feels more sidelined than before.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2017
“He’s red as a pepper, and he keeps glaring at me with those bulgy eyeballs.”
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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 William John Locke
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 Florence A. (Florence Antoinette) Kilpatrick
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