bulgen.

Brit.

/bʌldʒ/, U.S.

/bəldʒ/

Forms: Also 1600s bouldge, buldge.

Etymology: Middle English bulge , < Old French boulge (also bouge ), or < Latin bulga leathern knapsack, bag, of Gaulish origin. Sense 2, in which there is a variant bulch n.¹, may have been influenced by botch n.¹, bouche n.¹; sense 3 seems to be a recent formation from the verb. Sense 4 = bilge n., still belongs to the French bouge, but the history of its introduction into English is not known.

†1. A wallet or bag, esp. one made of hide; a skin-bottle, a pouch, a purse; = bouge n.¹ 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > skin

bladder?c1225

bulgec1230

bouge1387

budget1432

bulgetc1550

paidle1568

catskin1599

budge1606

petaca1648

taureau1794

buffalo-bag1856

mochila1856

parfleche1867

skin bag1910

c1230 Hali Meid. 35 Þe bitte þat beoreð forð as a water bulge.

1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood iii. xiii. 523 The Crownes Reuennues..wherewith she would fill her owne Bouldges.

†2. A hump. Cf. bulch n.¹, botch n.¹ Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back > hump

botchc1330

courbe1393

bossa1400

bulgec1400

crump1659

hump1709

c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 260 A ful grete bulge opon his bak.

a. A bulging, an irregularly rounded protuberance.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part

busta1250

bouging1398

gibbosityc1400

embossingc1430

breasta1450

belly1591

tumour1601

extuberance1607

belly-piece1609

embossment1610

outswelling1611

extuberation1615

protuberation1615

swelling1615

extuberancy1634

popple1635

protuberance1635

emboss1644

extancy1644

bump1653

protuberancy1653

protuberating1667

swell1683

bulge1741

boss1791

bulging1828

protuberosity1860

tuber1888

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 131 A large Tuberosity, or Bulge of the Bone appears.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 396 They have the characteristic bulge of the carbonate-of-lime stalactite.

1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. I. iv. 50 A bulge in the wall.

1879 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (new ed.) 240 A mountain-chain consists of a great plateau or bulge of the earth's surface.

b. figurative. Usually with the: the advantage or upper hand; the superior position; esp. in to have the bulge on: to have the advantage over. slang (originally U.S.).

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > have or get (someone) at a disadvantage

to have at avail1470

to catch, have, hold, take (one) at (a or the) vantagec1510

to gain of1548

to be to the forehand with1558

to have (take) on (in, at) the lurch1591

to get the sun of1598

to have (also get) a good hand against1600

to take (have, etc.) at a why-nota1612

to weather on or upon1707

to have the laugh on a person1767

to have a (or the) pull of (also over, on)1781

to get to windward of1783

to have the bulge on1841

to give points to1854

to get (have) the drop on1869

to hold over1872

to have an (or the) edge on1896

to get (also have) the goods on1903

to get (or have) the jump on1912

to have (got) by the balls1918

1841 Spirit of Times 18 Dec. 498/3 Kate got the bulge on her at the start.

1860 Richmond (Va.) Enquirer 30 Nov. 4/5 It is in this respect [of field products] that the South has ‘the bulge’ on the North, and will always have it.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 332 Well, you've ruther got the bulge on me. Or maybe we've both got the bulge, somehow.

1892 Idler 1 555 A master can call you an idiot, and you can't call him anything back again; so he has the bulge.

1899 E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman 197 We had the bulge before; he has it now.

1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter xxi. 306 They've got too big a bulge on us. Everything's fixed now to steal the..vote for old Steve Yancey, and that'll settle it.

1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves xv. 120 The Assyrians had the bulge on him.

c. A slight swell made on the surface by a fish moving through water as it feeds on flies, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > swell made by fish

bulge1878

1878 C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. ii Bulge, the swirl made by a salmon rising to the surface.

1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing vi. 122 [The angler] knows only too well that the apparent rises are bulges.

1892 Field 16 July 104/2 The rises, splashes, and bulges of burly brown fish.

d. A rise in prices or shares. U.S. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > (an) increase in price

enhancing1490

hoising1568

enhancement1577

advance1642

rise1645

inflammation1821

exaltation1866

raise1883

surpreciation1884

bulge1890

up1897

hike1931

uplift1949

1890 B. Hall Turnover Club 208 There is quite a bulge on June cocktails, and I fear a corner.

1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock xi. 272 The city house which the Bonsalls had occupied just before the big bulge in Southern Pacific landed them on top.

e. Military. A bulging part of a military front; a salient.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line > salient

salient1864

bulge1927

1927 W. S. Churchill World Crisis III. ii. xviii. 433 The German line formed a salient or bulge fifteen kilometers deep and sixty-four wide in the original British positions.

1942 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. The Russian officers I met around the Smolensk bulge.

f. colloquial. A temporary increase in volume or numbers; spec. the increased number of children of school age resulting from the rise in the birth-rate at the end of the 1914–18 and 1939–45 wars. Also attributive.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > population explosion

baby boom1879

bulge1930

population explosion1946

baby boomlet1963

echo boom1975

1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 26 Apr. 186/2 Accommodation would have to be provided which would not be required when the ‘bulge’ years had passed.

1933 Planning 1 xiii. 9 The impending flood of excess juvenile labour (the post~war bulge).

1935 Economist 23 Feb. 426/2 A temporary phenomenon, which corrected a ‘bulge’ in the curve without affecting its main upward trend.

1956 Times 2 June 7/7 The school population ‘bulge’ is moving up toward the 11–15 ages.

a. The bottom of a ship's hull. (Now generally superseded by bilge n.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > bilge

thurrockc1050

bilgea1522

bulge1622

billage1627

dill1882

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxxvi. 89 Shippes haue beene put in danger..by a hole made in the bulge.

1689 London Gaz. No. 2168/4 The Turkey Merchant was..driven ashore, where she stav'd in her Buldge.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 101 Bulge or Bilge, that part of the ship which she bears on most when not afloat.

b. A protuberance on the hull of a ship to increase stability or to protect against under-water attack (cf. blister n.¹ 2c).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > bulge to give protection or stability

blister1919

bulge1919

1919 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 543/1 Immunity from the evil effects of torpedoes and mines is sought by the provision of a swelling, commonly called a ‘bulge’ or a ‘blister’, below the water-line on each side.

1920 Glasgow Herald 10 Sept. 8 The modified ‘bulge’ for the protection against under-water attack.

Compounds

bulge-water n. = bilge-water n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirty water

puddle watera1425

dishwater1484

swilling1545

puddle1555

dish-wash1592

coal water1670

bilge-water1706

bulge-water1736

dish-washings1771

kob water1930

1736 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 48 The Stench and foul Air from the Surface of the Bulge-Water.

1777 W. Wright in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 508 By some called the bulge-water tree.

bulge-ways = bilge-ways n. at bilge n. Compounds 2.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests > timbers supporting ship when launching

ways1581

bilge-ways1769

dogshore1780

driver1781

slice1791

puppet1792

stopping up1805

dog1831

dagger1838

bulge-ways1850

poppet1850

trigger1867

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 116 The heel..is cleated on the bulgeways.

Draft additions July 2010

Astronomy. The central, often spheroidal or bulbous, part of a spiral galaxy, as contrasted with the surrounding disc. Cf. galactic bulge n. at galactic adj. Compounds.

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1934 Sci. Monthly Aug. 131/2 It may not be true that the rounded bulge of obscuration about the position of the center [of our galactic system] marks a dark kernel of our system.]

1943 Astrophysical Jrnl. 97 115 As the tilt is steadily increased, the band normally moves off the bulge before the spiral pattern emerges.

1975 New Scientist 19 Aug. 380/1 Observations in the infrared..show the stars in the bulge and allow us to estimate their density.

2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. d3 Dr. Gilfanov and Dr. Bogdan used NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to look at..the central bulge of the nearby Andromeda galaxy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

bulgev.

Brit.

/bʌldʒ/, U.S.

/bəldʒ/

Forms: Also 1500s boulge.

Etymology: < bulge n.; see the variants bilge v., bouge v., bulch v.

I. Nautical senses.

†1.

a. transitive. To stave in the bottom of a ship, cause her to spring a leak; = bilge v. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > stave in

bouge1485

bulge1570

bulch1577

bilge1589

billage1627

stavea1665

stove1820

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 388/2 In whiche fyght..were three of y^e Genewes ships boulged and sonke.

1680 W. de Britaine Humane Prudence xiii. 39 Labouring to buoy up a sunk Ship of anothers [he] bulged his own Vessel.

1782 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII, Add. iv Fearing, from the great swell..it [the wreck] might bulge the ship.

1821 Ld. Byron To Murray 7 Feb. Falconer's ship was bulged upon them.

b. transferred.

ΚΠ

1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1340 It was not a fair fall, as only one shoulder had bulged the ground.

†2.

a. reflexive and intransitive. Of a ship: To suffer fracture in the bilge; to strike (on or against) so as to damage the bilge. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > suffer shipwreck [verb (intransitive)] > be stove in

bouge1573

bulge1581

billage1627

bilge1728

society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [verb (reflexive)] > stave in bilge

bulge1581

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 452 b So doe they also in the same shyppe bulge themselves most of all.

1600 R. Davie in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 579 The rest bulged themselves.

1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iii. sig. E4^v Forc't by a tyrant storme, our beaten barke Bulg'd vnder vs.

1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 508 The Henry..bulg'd upon a rock, and lost all her cargo.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 275 Their vessels..bulged furiously one against the other.

1796–7 S. T. Coleridge Poems (1862) 13 It bulged on a rock, and the waves rushed in fast.

1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. xviii. 403 The ship received no damage by bulging against rocks.

b. transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > collide

hurtle1340

to strike together1340

thrusta1400

fray1483

concura1522

shock1575

to knock together1641

intershock1650

bulgea1676

collide1700

rencounter1712

clash1715

ding1874

bonk1947

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 348 If..Planetary Bodies should bulge and fall foul one upon the other.

II. Connected with bulge n. 2, 3, protuberance.

a. intransitive. To form a protuberance, to swell out; esp. in an irregular, clumsy, or faulty manner; e.g. as a wall of which the surface projects beyond the top and bottom.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > be or become protuberant [verb (intransitive)]

struta1300

bouge1398

embossc1430

bagc1440

bossc1449

bunch1495

bump1566

boin1567

protuberate1578

pagglea1592

bulch1611

extuberate1623

belly1627

heave1629

bulge1679

swell1679

bud1684

pod1806

bilge1849–52

sag1853

knucklec1862

poocha1903

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 163 The side of a Wall..that bulges from its bottom or foundation, is said to Batter.

a1701 H. Maundrell Of Valley of Salt in Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 10 The thin crust of Salt upon the surface bulged up.

1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 6 An oak..bulged out into a large excrescence about the middle of the stem.

1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism vi. 165 If the dyke of despotism had not bulged and gaped.

1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 211 The globe of Mars..bulges, like our Earth, at the equator.

b. Of a fish: to make a bulge (see bulge n. 3c).

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the world > animals > fish > [verb (intransitive)] > make bulge in water

bulge1889

1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing vi. 116 A fish taking caddis, shrimp, or snails is said to be tailing, from its tail appearing at intervals above water,..when feeding on larvæ or nymphæ it is described as bulging, from its motion through the water.

1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing vi. 124 At times trout bulge at shrimp, snail, and caddis.

1892 Field 4 June 838/2 The fish were smutting or bulging on the shallows.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 13 Dec. 4/2 The question of herrings ‘bulging’, as it is called.

4. transitive. To make protuberant.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > make protuberant [verb (transitive)]

bossc1380

embossc1475

bag1582

belly1609

womb?1623

bumpa1680

protuberate1778

bilge1808

hump1840

bulge1865

1865 Sir J. Herschel in Intellectual Observer No. 46. 248 By bulging them upwards.

1866 Morning Star 22 July A purse bulged with Austrian florin notes.

5. intransitive. To rush in, make a rush for. Also transitive (causative). To cause to rush off. U.S. colloquial.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently

driveeOE

fallOE

reseOE

routOE

rashOE

swip?c1225

weothec1275

startlec1300

lushc1330

swapc1386

brusha1400

spurna1400

buschc1400

frushc1400

rushc1405

rushle1553

rouse1582

hurl1609

powder1632

slash1689

stave1819

tilt1831

bulge1834

smash1835

storm1837

stream1847

ripsnort1932

slam1973

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move or cause to move swiftly in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > make (one's way) with a rush > cause to rush

bulge1868

1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life xiv. 96 My dogs..bulged in, and in an instant the bear followed them out.

1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life xvi. 105 As soon as we struck, I bulged for my hatchway.

1868 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. xxii. 207 Brooks and Harry Jones bulged them [sc. the horses] off in the lead at such a rate I was forced to let them take the pole on the turn.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxvi. 313 Here comes a couple of the hounds bulging in, from under Jim's bed.

Derivatives

ˈbulger n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > [noun] > defined by movement > that makes bulge in water

bulger1889

1889 Sat. Rev. 18 May 612/2 Mr. Halford..mentions a short way with bulgers, which he condemns as unsportsmanlike.

1899 19th Cent. Jan. 120 A moderate performer with the rod..will..pick up..a bulger here, a tailer there.

ˈbulging n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > that makes a bulge

bulging1889

the world > animals > fish > [noun] > defined by movement > that makes bulge in water > action of

bulging1889

1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing vi. 123 A bulging fish is feeding and looking out for food.

1899 E. Grey Fly Fishing 93 ‘Bulging’ trout in particular are generally not shy, and will stand any amount of fair fishing without ceasing to feed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bulge
释义	bulgen. Brit. /bʌldʒ/, U.S. /bəldʒ/ Forms: Also 1600s bouldge, buldge. Etymology: Middle English bulge , < Old French boulge (also bouge ), or < Latin bulga leathern knapsack, bag, of Gaulish origin. Sense 2, in which there is a variant bulch n.¹, may have been influenced by botch n.¹, bouche n.¹; sense 3 seems to be a recent formation from the verb. Sense 4 = bilge n., still belongs to the French bouge, but the history of its introduction into English is not known. †1. A wallet or bag, esp. one made of hide; a skin-bottle, a pouch, a purse; = bouge n.¹ 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > skin bladder?c1225 bulgec1230 bouge1387 budget1432 bulgetc1550 paidle1568 catskin1599 budge1606 petaca1648 taureau1794 buffalo-bag1856 mochila1856 parfleche1867 skin bag1910 c1230 Hali Meid. 35 Þe bitte þat beoreð forð as a water bulge. 1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood iii. xiii. 523 The Crownes Reuennues..wherewith she would fill her owne Bouldges. †2. A hump. Cf. bulch n.¹, botch n.¹ Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back > hump botchc1330 courbe1393 bossa1400 bulgec1400 crump1659 hump1709 c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 260 A ful grete bulge opon his bak. 3. a. A bulging, an irregularly rounded protuberance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part busta1250 bouging1398 gibbosityc1400 embossingc1430 breasta1450 belly1591 tumour1601 extuberance1607 belly-piece1609 embossment1610 outswelling1611 extuberation1615 protuberation1615 swelling1615 extuberancy1634 popple1635 protuberance1635 emboss1644 extancy1644 bump1653 protuberancy1653 protuberating1667 swell1683 bulge1741 boss1791 bulging1828 protuberosity1860 tuber1888 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 131 A large Tuberosity, or Bulge of the Bone appears. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 396 They have the characteristic bulge of the carbonate-of-lime stalactite. 1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. I. iv. 50 A bulge in the wall. 1879 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (new ed.) 240 A mountain-chain consists of a great plateau or bulge of the earth's surface. b. figurative. Usually with the: the advantage or upper hand; the superior position; esp. in to have the bulge on: to have the advantage over. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > have or get (someone) at a disadvantage to have at avail1470 to catch, have, hold, take (one) at (a or the) vantagec1510 to gain of1548 to be to the forehand with1558 to have (take) on (in, at) the lurch1591 to get the sun of1598 to have (also get) a good hand against1600 to take (have, etc.) at a why-nota1612 to weather on or upon1707 to have the laugh on a person1767 to have a (or the) pull of (also over, on)1781 to get to windward of1783 to have the bulge on1841 to give points to1854 to get (have) the drop on1869 to hold over1872 to have an (or the) edge on1896 to get (also have) the goods on1903 to get (or have) the jump on1912 to have (got) by the balls1918 1841 Spirit of Times 18 Dec. 498/3 Kate got the bulge on her at the start. 1860 Richmond (Va.) Enquirer 30 Nov. 4/5 It is in this respect [of field products] that the South has ‘the bulge’ on the North, and will always have it. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 332 Well, you've ruther got the bulge on me. Or maybe we've both got the bulge, somehow. 1892 Idler 1 555 A master can call you an idiot, and you can't call him anything back again; so he has the bulge. 1899 E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman 197 We had the bulge before; he has it now. 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter xxi. 306 They've got too big a bulge on us. Everything's fixed now to steal the..vote for old Steve Yancey, and that'll settle it. 1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves xv. 120 The Assyrians had the bulge on him. c. A slight swell made on the surface by a fish moving through water as it feeds on flies, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > swell made by fish bulge1878 1878 C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. ii Bulge, the swirl made by a salmon rising to the surface. 1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing vi. 122 [The angler] knows only too well that the apparent rises are bulges. 1892 Field 16 July 104/2 The rises, splashes, and bulges of burly brown fish. d. A rise in prices or shares. U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > (an) increase in price enhancing1490 hoising1568 enhancement1577 advance1642 rise1645 inflammation1821 exaltation1866 raise1883 surpreciation1884 bulge1890 up1897 hike1931 uplift1949 1890 B. Hall Turnover Club 208 There is quite a bulge on June cocktails, and I fear a corner. 1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock xi. 272 The city house which the Bonsalls had occupied just before the big bulge in Southern Pacific landed them on top. e. Military. A bulging part of a military front; a salient. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line > salient salient1864 bulge1927 1927 W. S. Churchill World Crisis III. ii. xviii. 433 The German line formed a salient or bulge fifteen kilometers deep and sixty-four wide in the original British positions. 1942 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. The Russian officers I met around the Smolensk bulge. f. colloquial. A temporary increase in volume or numbers; spec. the increased number of children of school age resulting from the rise in the birth-rate at the end of the 1914–18 and 1939–45 wars. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > population explosion baby boom1879 bulge1930 population explosion1946 baby boomlet1963 echo boom1975 1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 26 Apr. 186/2 Accommodation would have to be provided which would not be required when the ‘bulge’ years had passed. 1933 Planning 1 xiii. 9 The impending flood of excess juvenile labour (the post~war bulge). 1935 Economist 23 Feb. 426/2 A temporary phenomenon, which corrected a ‘bulge’ in the curve without affecting its main upward trend. 1956 Times 2 June 7/7 The school population ‘bulge’ is moving up toward the 11–15 ages. 4. a. The bottom of a ship's hull. (Now generally superseded by bilge n.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > bilge thurrockc1050 bilgea1522 bulge1622 billage1627 dill1882 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxxvi. 89 Shippes haue beene put in danger..by a hole made in the bulge. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2168/4 The Turkey Merchant was..driven ashore, where she stav'd in her Buldge. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 101 Bulge or Bilge, that part of the ship which she bears on most when not afloat. b. A protuberance on the hull of a ship to increase stability or to protect against under-water attack (cf. blister n.¹ 2c). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > bulge to give protection or stability blister1919 bulge1919 1919 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 543/1 Immunity from the evil effects of torpedoes and mines is sought by the provision of a swelling, commonly called a ‘bulge’ or a ‘blister’, below the water-line on each side. 1920 Glasgow Herald 10 Sept. 8 The modified ‘bulge’ for the protection against under-water attack. Compounds bulge-water n. = bilge-water n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirty water puddle watera1425 dishwater1484 swilling1545 puddle1555 dish-wash1592 coal water1670 bilge-water1706 bulge-water1736 dish-washings1771 kob water1930 1736 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 48 The Stench and foul Air from the Surface of the Bulge-Water. 1777 W. Wright in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 508 By some called the bulge-water tree. bulge-ways = bilge-ways n. at bilge n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests > timbers supporting ship when launching ways1581 bilge-ways1769 dogshore1780 driver1781 slice1791 puppet1792 stopping up1805 dog1831 dagger1838 bulge-ways1850 poppet1850 trigger1867 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 116 The heel..is cleated on the bulgeways. Draft additions July 2010 Astronomy. The central, often spheroidal or bulbous, part of a spiral galaxy, as contrasted with the surrounding disc. Cf. galactic bulge n. at galactic adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1934 Sci. Monthly Aug. 131/2 It may not be true that the rounded bulge of obscuration about the position of the center [of our galactic system] marks a dark kernel of our system.] 1943 Astrophysical Jrnl. 97 115 As the tilt is steadily increased, the band normally moves off the bulge before the spiral pattern emerges. 1975 New Scientist 19 Aug. 380/1 Observations in the infrared..show the stars in the bulge and allow us to estimate their density. 2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. d3 Dr. Gilfanov and Dr. Bogdan used NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to look at..the central bulge of the nearby Andromeda galaxy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). bulgev. Brit. /bʌldʒ/, U.S. /bəldʒ/ Forms: Also 1500s boulge. Etymology: < bulge n.; see the variants bilge v., bouge v., bulch v. I. Nautical senses. †1. a. transitive. To stave in the bottom of a ship, cause her to spring a leak; = bilge v. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > stave in bouge1485 bulge1570 bulch1577 bilge1589 billage1627 stavea1665 stove1820 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 388/2 In whiche fyght..were three of y^e Genewes ships boulged and sonke. 1680 W. de Britaine Humane Prudence xiii. 39 Labouring to buoy up a sunk Ship of anothers [he] bulged his own Vessel. 1782 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII, Add. iv Fearing, from the great swell..it [the wreck] might bulge the ship. 1821 Ld. Byron To Murray 7 Feb. Falconer's ship was bulged upon them. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1340 It was not a fair fall, as only one shoulder had bulged the ground. †2. a. reflexive and intransitive. Of a ship: To suffer fracture in the bilge; to strike (on or against) so as to damage the bilge. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > suffer shipwreck [verb (intransitive)] > be stove in bouge1573 bulge1581 billage1627 bilge1728 society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [verb (reflexive)] > stave in bilge bulge1581 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 452 b So doe they also in the same shyppe bulge themselves most of all. 1600 R. Davie in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 579 The rest bulged themselves. 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iii. sig. E4^v Forc't by a tyrant storme, our beaten barke Bulg'd vnder vs. 1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 508 The Henry..bulg'd upon a rock, and lost all her cargo. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 275 Their vessels..bulged furiously one against the other. 1796–7 S. T. Coleridge Poems (1862) 13 It bulged on a rock, and the waves rushed in fast. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. xviii. 403 The ship received no damage by bulging against rocks. b. transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > collide hurtle1340 to strike together1340 thrusta1400 fray1483 concura1522 shock1575 to knock together1641 intershock1650 bulgea1676 collide1700 rencounter1712 clash1715 ding1874 bonk1947 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 348 If..Planetary Bodies should bulge and fall foul one upon the other. II. Connected with bulge n. 2, 3, protuberance. 3. a. intransitive. To form a protuberance, to swell out; esp. in an irregular, clumsy, or faulty manner; e.g. as a wall of which the surface projects beyond the top and bottom. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > be or become protuberant [verb (intransitive)] struta1300 bouge1398 embossc1430 bagc1440 bossc1449 bunch1495 bump1566 boin1567 protuberate1578 pagglea1592 bulch1611 extuberate1623 belly1627 heave1629 bulge1679 swell1679 bud1684 pod1806 bilge1849–52 sag1853 knucklec1862 poocha1903 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 163 The side of a Wall..that bulges from its bottom or foundation, is said to Batter. a1701 H. Maundrell Of Valley of Salt in Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 10 The thin crust of Salt upon the surface bulged up. 1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 6 An oak..bulged out into a large excrescence about the middle of the stem. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism vi. 165 If the dyke of despotism had not bulged and gaped. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 211 The globe of Mars..bulges, like our Earth, at the equator. b. Of a fish: to make a bulge (see bulge n. 3c). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [verb (intransitive)] > make bulge in water bulge1889 1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing vi. 116 A fish taking caddis, shrimp, or snails is said to be tailing, from its tail appearing at intervals above water,..when feeding on larvæ or nymphæ it is described as bulging, from its motion through the water. 1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing vi. 124 At times trout bulge at shrimp, snail, and caddis. 1892 Field 4 June 838/2 The fish were smutting or bulging on the shallows. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 13 Dec. 4/2 The question of herrings ‘bulging’, as it is called. 4. transitive. To make protuberant. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > make protuberant [verb (transitive)] bossc1380 embossc1475 bag1582 belly1609 womb?1623 bumpa1680 protuberate1778 bilge1808 hump1840 bulge1865 1865 Sir J. Herschel in Intellectual Observer No. 46. 248 By bulging them upwards. 1866 Morning Star 22 July A purse bulged with Austrian florin notes. 5. intransitive. To rush in, make a rush for. Also transitive (causative). To cause to rush off. U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently driveeOE fallOE reseOE routOE rashOE swip?c1225 weothec1275 startlec1300 lushc1330 swapc1386 brusha1400 spurna1400 buschc1400 frushc1400 rushc1405 rushle1553 rouse1582 hurl1609 powder1632 slash1689 stave1819 tilt1831 bulge1834 smash1835 storm1837 stream1847 ripsnort1932 slam1973 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move or cause to move swiftly in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > make (one's way) with a rush > cause to rush bulge1868 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life xiv. 96 My dogs..bulged in, and in an instant the bear followed them out. 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life xvi. 105 As soon as we struck, I bulged for my hatchway. 1868 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. xxii. 207 Brooks and Harry Jones bulged them [sc. the horses] off in the lead at such a rate I was forced to let them take the pole on the turn. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxvi. 313 Here comes a couple of the hounds bulging in, from under Jim's bed. Derivatives ˈbulger n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > defined by movement > that makes bulge in water bulger1889 1889 Sat. Rev. 18 May 612/2 Mr. Halford..mentions a short way with bulgers, which he condemns as unsportsmanlike. 1899 19th Cent. Jan. 120 A moderate performer with the rod..will..pick up..a bulger here, a tailer there. ˈbulging n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > that makes a bulge bulging1889 the world > animals > fish > [noun] > defined by movement > that makes bulge in water > action of bulging1889 1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing vi. 123 A bulging fish is feeding and looking out for food. 1899 E. Grey Fly Fishing 93 ‘Bulging’ trout in particular are generally not shy, and will stand any amount of fair fishing without ceasing to feed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1230v.1570
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