hulky

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See also: hůlky

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hulk +‎ -y

Adjective[edit]

hulky (comparative hulkier, superlative hulkiest)

  1. Large; hulking.
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book VI, chapter 56:
      ‘I want to go first and have a round with that hulky fellow who turned to challenge me. It would be a good lesson for him.’
    • 2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering.
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