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Hulky

adjective
1.
Of great size and bulk.  Synonym: hulking.  "Three hulking battleships"






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"Hulky" Quotes from Famous Books



... a family back in the East that was remote kin to mine and they looked me up in Red Gap when they come out into the great boundless West to carve out a name for themselves. About fifteen years ago they come. Ben was dark and short and hulky, with his head jammed down between his shoulders. Ed was blond and like a cat, being quick. Ben had a simple but emphatic personality, seeing what he wanted and going for it, and that never being more than one thing at a time. Ed was all over the place with his own aspirations and never ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... looked! Juno wept in the face of every one of them. The horse is a true citizen, and is entirely at home in the paved streets; but the ox—what a complete embodiment of all rustic and rural things! Slow, deliberate, thick-skinned, powerful, hulky, ruminating, fragrant-breathed, when he came to town the spirit and suggestion of all Georgics and Bucolics came with him. Oh, citizen, was it only a plodding, unsightly brute that went by? Was there no chord in your ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various



Words linked to "Hulky" :   large, hulking, big, hulk



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