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Grammar : Adj |
Spell : huhl-king |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhʌl kɪŋ |
Definition of hulking
Origin :- "big, clumsy," 1690s (through 18c. usually with fellow), from hulk (n.).
- adj massive
- I feel a hulking slacker and fraud, being home on sick leave.
- Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke
- The hulking ruffian roared with pleasant laughter at the sally.
- Extract from : « The Iron Pirate » by Max Pemberton
- He sat there staring up in astonishment at Fyfe, hulking over him.
- Extract from : « I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon » by Richard Sabia
- Careless Tom, or Hulking Tom (not necessarily in disapproval).
- Extract from : « Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects » by Giorgio Vasari
- Who told her John had the fever—a great, strong, hulking fellow like that?
- Extract from : « John Ingerfield and Other Stories » by Jerome K. Jerome
- And here was a hulking, good-natured Frenchman doing it splendidly.
- Extract from : « King of Ranleigh » by F. S. (Frederick Sadlier) Brereton
- He was a young giant with hulking shoulders, ruddy-faced, bold-eyed, ugly-mouthed.
- Extract from : « The U.P. Trail » by Zane Grey
- Tell us all about it, and how you came to be working for this hulking bully.
- Extract from : « Jones of the 64th » by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
- And yet you two hulking men are afraid of a death's-head moth.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of Choice » by Robert William Chambers
- He got to his feet, hulking, savage, with swaying red fists.
- Extract from : « Cursed » by George Allan England
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