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Thickset vs Hulking - What's the difference?

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Thickset is a related term of hulking.


As adjectives the difference between thickset and hulking

is that thickset is having a short, heavy build; stout while hulking is large and bulky.

As a noun thickset

is a thick hedge.

thickset

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a short, heavy build; stout
  • Closely planted.
    • a thickset''' wood; a '''thickset hedge
    (Dryden)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thick hedge.
  • A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.
    • (McElrath)
    (Webster 1913)

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    hulking

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Large and bulky.
  • (man) Tall and heavily built.
  • Unwieldy.

    • Quotations

    * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 212 *: A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.

    Related terms

    * hulk