A great hulking fellow A great overgrown one A bulk is a big, lubberly fellow, applied to Falstaff by Shakespeare It means the body of an old ship (See above ) The monster sausage brought in on Christmas day was called a haulkin or haukin
of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships"
You use hulking to describe a person or object that is extremely large, heavy, or slow-moving, especially when they seem threatening in some way. When I woke up there was a hulking figure staring down at me. very big and often awkward