bulge

Signification (Anglais)

1. Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
2. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
3. A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
4. The bilge of a vessel.
5. (colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
6. A sudden rise in value or quantity.

bomber

bosse

cambrage

être enflé

extrusion

faire saillie

s’amonceler

se distendre

s’entasser

se renfler

s’étendre

bulge out

become swollen

be swollen

curve out

swell out

floor heave

sweel

gibbose bunchy

be piled up

get cross

balloon

🎈

become inflated

get sulky

be inflated

karyosphere

preiection

uphearal

be enlarged

be dilated

be distended

be embonpoint

be forced out from an orifice

be puffy

bezel of a ring

flower calyx

protrude the lips

pucker the lips

gibbousity

ectasis

floor lift

be lumpy

projecting portion

appendix

saddle-backing

bottom squeeze

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bʌldʒ/

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.