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Hulky

Definition: Hulky

Hulky

Adjective

1. Of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Hulky

DomainDefinitions

Slang in 1811

HULKY, or HULKING. A great hulky fellow; an over-grown clumsy lout, or fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Hulky

Synonym: hulking (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hulky

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inexpedience

Clumsy, awkward; cumbrous, cumbersome; lumbering, unwieldy, hulky; unmanageable; (impracticable); impedient; (in the way).

Size

Lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy; (swollen).

Ugliness

Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: Hulky

Language Translations for "hulky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

ογκώδησ (bulky, hulking, massive, massy, voluminous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulkyhay

   

Turkish

  

hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, loutish, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, yahoo), kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantean, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, jumbo-sized, mammoth, monster, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), iri kıyım (big, hulking). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Hulky

Misspellings

"Hulky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hucky, hulce. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hulky

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-k-l-u-y"

-1 letter: hulk.

-2 letters: yuk.

-3 letters: uh.

 Words containing the letters "h-k-l-u-y"
 

+2 letters: huskily.

 

+3 letters: chunkily, lekythus.

 

+4 letters: puckishly.

 

+5 letters: thankfully, unshakably.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hulky


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 75 6C 6B 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    ..-    .-..    -.-    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01110101 01101100 01101011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#117 &#108 &#107 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0075 006C 006B 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4287787791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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