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Hulking describes something — or someone — that is very big, heavy, and a bit . A hulking man fills the doorway. A hulking old fridge in the corner is huge and in the way. The word is not praise for beauty or bravery; it is about size you cannot miss, and that does not move lightly. It is a little informal, more at home in stories and everyday talk than in careful reports. You can use it for people, animals, or objects. It comes from hulk, an old word for a large body or the empty body of a ship, plus -ing, which here turns that idea into an adjective: like a hulk.
魁梧笨重的、高大而顯笨拙的（人、動物或東西都可以）。
組成hulk (a big clumsy body, or the empty body of an old ship) + -ing (here making an adjective: like a hulk).
同家族的字
- hulkhulking is hulk plus -ing
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hulkingadj詞源 1/ˈhʌlkɪŋ/
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Large and bulky, heavily built; massive.
- A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.
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Unwieldy.
hulkingnoun詞源 2/ˈhʌlkɪŋ/
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A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.
- The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。