bulbheaded
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bulbheaded
- (uncommon) Shaped like or resembling a bulb.
- 1973, Asian Institute of Technology, International Association for Hydraulic Research. Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Unesco (contributors), Proceedings of the International Association for Hydraulic Research International Symposium on River Mechanics, 9-12 January 1973, Bangkok, Thailand: General reports, discussions, lectures, page 40:
- He used a bulbheaded pier which has a section like a figure 8, or in other words, his pier has a bulbhead sticking out of the pier to the upstream of the flow.
- 1999, David Rothenberg, Marta Ulvaeus (editors), The New Earth Reader - The Best of Terra Nova, page 219:
- her bulbheaded cane from darkcontinent, my phallic symbol.
- 2016, Hugh A. D. Spencer, Why I Hunt Flying Saucers and Other Fantasticals:
- I don't happen to find bug-eyed, bulb-headed E.T.s particularly sexually arousing, so they used this giant vacuum cleaner nozzle to generate the erection.
- 2017, Syd Moore, Strange Sight - An Essex Witch Museum Mystery:
- The only piece of decorative art that I could find was a framed Escher print, Relativity, with its confounding staircases and bulb-headed occupants calmly defying gravity.