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- adverb In a
bulbous manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everyone knows crawfish have pointy little heads with long feelers not bulbously obscene heads.
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In some versions of this story, Gladys is even doing it for payment: the ranks of first-time freelance editors have been swelling bulbously of late.
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In some versions of this story, Gladys is even doing it for payment: the ranks of first-time freelance editors have been swelling bulbously of late.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Getting good feedback, part IX: more wrangling with Gladioli 2009
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In both scenes, Hagler purposely makes the characters grotesquely disproportionate, with their heads bulbously perched on tiny bodies.
What I bought – 21 May 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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You know the Want Ad read: WANTED: Harvey Fierstein lookalike to model plush candelabra on bulbously semitic potato head.
Archive 2005-01-01 Michelle Collins 2005
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There were truncated cones, sometimes terraced or fluted, surmounted by tall cylindrical shafts here and there bulbously enlarged and often capped with tiers of thinnish scalloped disks; and strange beetling, tablelike constructions suggesting piles of multitudinous rectangular slabs or circular plates or five-pointed stars with each one overlapping the one beneath.
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The shimmering canopy that covers the drivers reflects his image, if bulbously.
Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000
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Suddenly into the room burst Marapper, bulbously, monumentally out of breath.
Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959
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Mr Bickersdyke lowered the paper and glared bulbously at the old
Psmith in the City 1928
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The hero's best frenemy is an egg, and a more bulbously tactile egg you'll never see.
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