bulge

Meaning

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.

swell

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

Frequency

Pronounced as (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.