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hulk

noun

  1. ship type
L16941 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. be impressively large
L331945 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /hʌlk/ / /hʊlk/

name

Etymology: The name of a character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Marvel Comics Universe, it has since entered the everyday English lexicon. The name itself is most likely derived from the word hulk (“large person or thing”), which predates the character. See the Wikipedia link at the bottom.

  1. A fictional Marvel Comics character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.

    “Fry: How can you say Lars is more mature than me? Leela: Well, for one thing, his checkbook doesn't have the Hulk on it.”

noun

Etymology: The name of a character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Marvel Comics Universe, it has since entered the everyday English lexicon. The name itself is most likely derived from the word hulk (“large person or thing”), which predates the character. See the Wikipedia link at the bottom.

  1. A person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk in the Marvel Comics Universe.
  2. A strongman.

verb

Etymology: A variant of holk (“to dig out, hollow out, make hollow; to dig up, excavate; to dig into, investigate”), from Middle English holken (“to dig out, hollow out; to dig up, excavate”) (compare holk (“a hollow; body cavity”)), perhaps from Middle Low German hȫlken (“to hollow out, gouge”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”, adjective); further etymology uncertain, perhaps either from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”), or *ḱewh₁- (“to swell; to be strong”). Compare also Old English āhlocian (“to dig out”).

  1. To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

    “And with this ſwaſhing blow, do you ſwear Prince; / I could hulk your Grace, and hang you up croſs-legg'd, / Like a Hare at a Poulters, and do this with this wiper.”