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▪ I. bulky, n. slang.|ˈbʌlkɪ|
A policeman.
1827Lytton Pelham lxxix, The bugaboos and bulkies. 1841― Nt. & Morn. v. ii, Inquiries about your respectability would soon bring the bulkies about me.
▪ II. bulky, a.|ˈbʌlkɪ|
Also 7 boaky, bulkey, -ie.
[f. bulk n.1 + -y1.]
1. Of large bulk, voluminous; occupying much space (esp. with a notion of excess).
1687T. Brown Saints in Upr. Wks. 1730 I. 73 Will bang half a dozen such bulky fellows. 1774Johnson in Boswell (1831) III. 115 If anything is too bulky for the post, let me have it by the carrier. 1879Gladstone Glean. II. v. 213 This is a large but not a bulky biography. For the word bulky insinuates the idea of size in excess of pith and meaning.
†2. Having extension, occupying space. Obs.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 84 Suppose a being that is bulkie, and nothing about it that is so, or two beings that are bulky and nothing between them that is so. Ibid. 138 Body being a..boaky unthroughfaresom thing.
†3. ? Pompous, ‘big’, self-important. Obs.
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 7 A bulky Dutchman diverted it quite from its first Institution. 1673Ibid. ii. (1674) 245 One of your bulkie Princes, who had the Trumpet ready to sound whensoever he hit the Ball at Tennis. |