Also 7 boaky, bulkey, -ie. [f. BULK sb.1 + -Y1.]
1. Of large bulk, voluminous; occupying much space (esp. with a notion of excess).
1687. T. Brown, Saints in Uproar, Wks. 1730, I. 73. Will bang half a dozen such bulky fellows.
1774. Johnson, in Boswell (1831), III. 115. If anything is too bulky for the post, let me have it by the carrier.
1879. Gladstone, 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.
1674. N. 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.
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 7. A bulky Dutchman diverted it quite from its first Institution. Ibid. (1673), II. (1674), 245. One of your bulkie Princes, who had the Trumpet ready to sound whensoever he hit the Ball at Tennis.
