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bulky

adj
/ˈbʌlki/

Etymology

From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.

  1. inherited from bulki

Definitions

  1. Being large in size, mass, or volume

    Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.

    • Action such as this, filmed under great difficulty with a bulky, hand-cranked camera, revealed the possibilities of the movies and was quite startling in those early days.
    • Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.

  2. Unwieldy.

  3. Having excess body mass, especially muscle.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bulky. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bulky. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at bulky

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA