abulge
/əˈbʌld͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-Lore of the West Highlands, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 336, It was a bright afternoon, with just enough wind over the quarter to set our lugsail well abulge, and make our little “Penguin” dance merrily over the rippling wavelets."
- "One day that next spring, a long line of wagons jolted over the cartway north from Hadley. They were abulge with everything you could think of. I could see bedsteads and other furniture, rolls of bedding, pots, kettles with gallows crooks to hang them by in a fireplace."
- "The neighbour eater saved his jug with both hands, barking Romanly, eyes abulge, while the wine danced to its resettling."
- "Small white torpedoes, conical plastic cucumbers featureless and others quite convincing replicas of the real thing, flanged and veined and abulge."
Etymology
From a- + bulge.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a