[f. BULGY + -NESS.] The quality of being bulgy.
1859. Westm. Rev., LXXI. 348. One great branch of Sheffield’s industry in these days consists in the manufacture of that mysterious article of feminine apparel which is used to give the female form its full development, and endow it with the essential bulginess.
1860. Sala, Baddington Peerage, I. iv. 77. I am glad Phrenology was not so much talked about thirty years since as now; else Mr. Donovan would have augured rather dismally for the chances of Captain Pollyblank’s future career, in consideration of the lowness of his forehead, and the peculiar bulginess and bumpiness of the back of his neck.
1862. C. A. Collins, A Cruise upon Wheels, II. xi. 206. The bag, the last time you packed it, was crammed, and would not shut. A lump stuck out here, a nob there, an obstinate bulginess everywhere.
1883. Sat. Rev., LV. 497. [Umbrellas] rolled up tight and not brought into use and bulginess.
