bulging

English

Verb

bulging

1. present participle and gerund of bulge

Noun

bulging (plural bulgings)

1. The shape or motion of something that bulges.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.

   • 1969, Sugar Technologists' Association of India, Proceedings:

     It was noticed that there had been saggings and bulgings in the trays.

Anagrams

• bugling