bulky

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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bulky (ˈbʌlkɪ)

—*adj* , bulkier, bulkiest
	very large and massive, esp so as to be unwieldy

'bulkily

—*adv*

'bulkiness

—n

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bulky

mid-15c., from bulk + -y (2).

Example sentences

Bees are simply too bulky and heavy for their paltry wings to lift them off the

ground, they say.

One negative, however, is how bulky it is even when collapsed.

Existing communications systems can be bulky and pricey.

Except there's no bulky new message creator to pop open, you simply start

typing below your friend's message.

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"Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,—which taste cannot tolerate,—which ridicule will seize."

-Jane Austen