Meaning

noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

verb swell or protrude outwards

verb bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

originFrom 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.

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