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Menacingly large
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hulking
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships" [syn: hulky ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 large and bulky. 2 ''(man)'' tall and heavily built. 3 unwieldy.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Two hulking guards stood at attention. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All at once the hulking man led him forward and sat him in a hard chair opposite Matta. ▪ All these obelisks are dark and sinister, their hulking forms ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hulking \Hulk"ing\, Hulky \Hulk"y\, a. Bulky; unwiedly; of great size and bulk; ponderous. [R.] ``A huge hulking fellow.'' --H. Brooke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"big, clumsy," 1690s (through 18c. usually with fellow ), from hulk (n.).
Usage examples of hulking.
In the space of just a few minutes she had seen ten armed men carrying suitcases, a sable-garbed woman with two steel hooks for hands, and now a diamond-studded blond followed by a hulking, apish brute of a man.
I had seen this hulking Bohunk or throwback Polack from my study window, busying himself down on the street, always ready to flex his primitive can-do and know-how.
Legion General Bill Booly followed the corridor that circled the outer edge of the wheel-shaped space station, he found himself rubbing shoulders with all manner of fellow beings, including brightly feathered Prithians, hulking Hudathans, work-worn androids, exoskeleton-clad Dwellers, cybernetic humans, and more.
A bit farther down the bar rail, a massive, hulking slob named Bungo had eyed Wulfgar from the minute the young barbarian had walked through the door.
I was looking at the repulsive sight in silence, when a great hulking fellow, whose appearance suggested the blacksmith, and his voice the blackguard, came up to me and asked me in bad Italian if I would like to dance.
Gasman whispered, telling Iggy where the window was as his brain registered the hulking Eraser filling the doorway.
He was a powerful-looking figure with hulking shoulders, gangling arms, and a blocky, almost handsome face.
Knot was eight feet of hulking matted hairiness and Sab resembled a leather lion with wings.
If a campus was a green quadrilateral described by hulking, hederated Gothics, then this was a campus.
Raising one hand, the sovereign warlock threw a crackling, virulent green sphere at the hulking hirsute figure.
The great hulking scholar of three-and-twenty, who was crying secretly over a passage of Eutropius, flattened his neglected nose against the panes and looked at the drag, as the laquais de place sprang from the box and let out the persons in the carriage.
Presently the four men on their hulking oasts passed in the afterglow above him, black double-shapes in attitudes suggestive of ill-temper and disappointment.
One was the coarse, guttural sound of his jailer, a nasty, hulking brute by the name of Pinard, who never missed an opportunity to make it clear to his prisoners that he enjoyed his work immensely.
Bram could do anything about it, Pite pushed his way into the chamber, followed by his two hulking friends.
Wizardwall, hulking over the town of Tyse dark and shimmering with sorcery which made a difficult climb nearly impossible, remarked upon its foreboding reaches.