Hulk

Noun

 * 1) An old ship which is no longer in use
 * 2)  any large ship that is difficult to maneuver
 * 3) A big, (and possibly clumsy) person
 * : An excessively muscled person

Quotations

 * large ship, difficult to maneuver
 * 1602, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act ii, scene 3
 * Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.


 * abandoned ship
 * 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, as printed in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics (2002), paperback, page 83
 * They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.

Adjectives for Hulk
lumbering; shallow; unprizable; lifeless.

Thesaurus
anatomy, argosy, bark, boat, body, bones, bottom, bucket, carcass, clay, clod, corpus, craft, derelict, figure, flesh, form, frame, galoot, hooker, hull, jumbo, keel, klutz, leviathan, lout, material body, mere wreck, nervous wreck, oaf, ox, packet, person, physical body, physique, rattletrap, ruin, ruins, shell, ship, shipwreck, skeleton, soma, thumper, torso, trunk, tub, vessel, watercraft, whale, whopper, wreck

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 * Basque: gizonkote


 * German:, Riese, Hüne


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