a. [f. BULGE sb. + -Y1.] Swollen, clumsily or unduly protuberant.

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1848.  Dickens, Dombey, 290. A man with bulgy legs.

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1859.  Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 61. Third-class umbrellas are dubious in colour … bulgy in the body.

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1879.  Browning, Martin Relph, 74. The bulgy nose and the blood-shot eyes.

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