hobbledehoy vs hulk

hobbledehoy

noun
  • An awkward adolescent youth. 

hulk

noun
  • A big (and possibly clumsy) person. 

  • A large structure with a dominating presence. 

  • An excessively muscled person. 

  • A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage. 

verb
  • To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk. 

  • To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence. 

  • Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily. 

  • To remove the entrails of; to disembowel. 

  • To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk. 

  • To move (a large, hulking body). 

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