Example sentences for: bilge

How can you use “bilge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To women who fall for him he spews such unprocessed bilge as, "I gotta be free; I'm an artist."

  • bilge ( n .) A variant of bulge . Simmon's American Cookery tells us, “Eggs put them into water, if they lye on their bilge, they are good and fresh.”

  • Knocked for a feather meaning `greatly surprised' could be a humorous blend of knocked for a loop and knocked over with a feather , just as fleazy is perhaps a blend of flea and sleazy . To go on a bilge or drinking spree used by three Northern informants is perhaps an alteration of to go on a binge , or perhaps a punning alteration, or perhaps a pronunciation variant, with l substituted for n , as in chimney/chimley . For lack of evidence, all of these derivations are essentially guesses.


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