Etymology
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From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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bulky (comparative bulkier, superlative bulkiest)
- Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular
1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 140: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.
- Unwieldy.
- (bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
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Translations
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large in size, mass, or volume
- Arabic: ضَخْم (ḍaḵm)
- Bulgarian: обемист (bg) (obemist), масивен (bg) (masiven)
- Catalan: voluminós
- Czech: objemný (cs) (in volume)
- Danish: voluminøs
- Dutch: lijvig (nl), omvangrijk (nl), dik (nl)
- Finnish: kookas (fi), iso (fi)
- French: gros (fr), corpulent (fr) (of a person), volumineux (fr)
- German: massig (de), wuchtig (de)
- Greek: ογκώδης (el) (ogkódis)
- Hungarian: nagy terjedelmű, terjedelmes (hu), masszív (hu), vaskos (hu), méretes (hu), (of a person) testes (hu), zömök (hu)
- Ingrian: varma
- Irish: téagartha
- Italian: voluminoso (it), massiccio (it), ingombrante (it)
- Korean: 거대한 (geodaehan)
- Maori: takapū (of a person), pūngerungeru (of a person), hore (of a person)
- Occitan: voluminós
- Polish: masywny (pl)
- Portuguese: grosso (pt), volumoso (pt), massudo (pt)
- Romanian: mare (ro), voluminos (ro)
- Russian: объемистый (ru) (obʺjemistyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: tomadach
- Serbo-Croatian: krupan (sh), velik (sh)
- Slovak: objemný
- Spanish: voluminoso (es)
- Swedish: skrymmande (sv)
- Walloon: håynûle (wa)
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