HULKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hulking mean? 

• HULKING (adjective)
  The adjective HULKING has 1 sense:

1. of great size and bulk

  Familiarity information: HULKING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HULKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of great size and bulk

Synonyms:

hulking; hulky

Context example:

three hulking battleships

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

 Context examples 

Back we will go, the way we came, and small thanks to you big, hulking, chicken-hearted men.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I'm a frontiersman from the extreme edge of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave my study and come into touch with all you great, rough, hulking creatures.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"I hate that word hulking," objected Tom crossly, "even in kidding."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"You did it, Tom," she said accusingly. "I know you didn't mean to but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big hulking physical specimen of a—"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)