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bulkwise

adv

Etymology

From bulk + -wise.

  1. derived from bouk — “belly, trunk”
  2. derived from *bʰelǵ-✻ — “beam, pile, prop”
  3. derived from *bulkô✻ — “beam, pile, heap”
  4. derived from búlki — “the freight or the cargo of a ship”
  5. inherited from bulk
  6. suffixed as bulkwise — “bulk + wise”

Definitions

  1. In terms of bulk (size).

    • “Audition” tells of a life lived on, in and never far from TV. This bulky memoir weighs in at more than 600 pages, falling midway, bulkwise, between “Oblomov” and “Ulysses.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA