bulge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌldʒ/
ipa: /ˈbʌldʒ/
ipa: /ˈbʊldʒ/
rhymes: -ʌldʒ
rhymes: -ʊldʒ
Forms: form: bulges
Etymology: From Middle English bulge (“leather bag; hump”), from Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), from Gaulish *bulga, *bulgos, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”). Cognate with bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. Doublet of budge, and from the same root as belly and bellows. See also budget.
Senses: examples: text: a bulge in a wall
text: There was a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet.
text: Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
text: The collapse happened within three weeks of an examining engineer observing that a bulge in the brickwork had increased since a previous inspection.
ref: 2024 February 21, “Network News: Safety changes recommended after train hits collapsed wall”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 19:
glosses: An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
glosses: The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
synonyms: hump
glosses: A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The bilge of a vessel.
examples: text: Max looked down and sure as crap, his bulge was huge, and he started to stammer and stutter and without hesitation said, Holy crap Sandy, look at what you do to me.
ref: 2010, Micky Livingston, Seventeen Inches, →ISBN:
text: As his bulge begins to swell once again, her hand strokes the length of it through his pants.
ref: 2012, D.H.Clark/I.B.Long, A Grasp for Life: The continuing story of Howard Walker, →ISBN, page 75:
text: He walked right up to me, the knife poking him in the abdomen, just above his bulge.
ref: 2017, Dee Dawning, Extramarital, →ISBN:
text: I'm wearing the same tight panties here as in the video clip above, with girldick nonerect, out to the front and pointing up, which is the position I prefer her to be. This absurdly tight skirt clearly shows too much bulge (along with hip bones, tummy, specks of dust etc). Personally I think bulges are super cute and I'm pissed off that I have to hide mine, but society feels otherwise so let’s try to offset it. (I mean, IRL I still won’t wear this skirt ever ofc 😇, but for science.)
ref: 2020 November 11, “What’s it like to be a post-orchiectomy non-op trans woman”, in elilla & friends’ very occasional blog thing, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2023:
synonyms: word: basket
word: bulge
word: crotchbulge
word: crotch tent
word: cockbulge
word: dick print
word: girlbulge
word: junk
word: lunchbox
word: manbulge
word: mooseknuckle
word: package
word: packet
word: pocket rocket
word: tent
word: trouser tent
glosses: The outline of the penis visible through clothing.
examples: text: A second bulge in prices occurred during September 30 — October 9. The rise of prices up to October 3 was in part apparently a technical adjustment of the markets, a reaction to the preceding decline.
ref: 1930, Stanford University, Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, volume 7, page 204:
glosses: A sudden rise in value or quantity.
Derived terms: backbulge
battle of the bulge
bulge bracket
bulge in the onion bag
bulgeless
bulgelike
bulger
bulgy
cockbulge
forebulge
galactic bulge
get the bulge on
girlbulge
manbulge
outbulge
protobulge
pseudobulge
tentabulge
youth bulge