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pullistua — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  • balloon noun A flexible bag that inflates with air or gas, used as a toy, decoration, or for flight.
  • bilge noun The lowest part of a ship's hull, where water collects.
  • billow noun A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.
  • bulge noun A part that swells or sticks out from an otherwise flat or smooth surface.
  • pooch noun Informal word for a dog, especially a mongrel or family pet.
  • protrude verb To cause (something) to extend above, beyond, or from a boundary or surface; to cause (something) to project or stick out.
  • strut verb To walk in a proud, stiff, confident way, often with the head held high.
  • swell verb To grow bigger, especially by filling with fluid or gas.

Senses

pullistua is used for these senses in English:

  • bag (obsolete, ambitransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
  • balloon (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
  • bilge (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
  • billow To swell out or bulge.
  • bulge (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
  • pooch (intransitive) To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out.
  • protrude (transitive) To cause to extend from a surface or boundary; to cause to stick out.
  • strut (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.

bag — full definition

  1. noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  2. verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.

balloon — full definition

  1. noun A flexible bag that inflates with air or gas, used as a toy, decoration, or for flight.
  2. noun The rounded outline enclosing a character's speech in a comic strip.
  3. verb To swell or increase rapidly in size or amount.

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