Bulk Definition
- lion-s-share
- staple
- gross
- best
- more than half
- body
- greater number
- biggest share
- plurality
- most
- predominant part
- preponderance
- majority
- best part
- major part
- Unpackaged; loose.
- In large numbers, amounts, or volume.
- not put up in individual packages
- in large amounts; in great volume
Other Word Forms of Bulk
Noun
Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Bulk
- in bulk
- in bulk
Origin of Bulk
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From Middle English bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold”), from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”), related to Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”). Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”), from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhōw- (“to blow, swell”), related to Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly, stomach”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”). More at bouk, bucket.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English perhaps partly alteration of bouk belly, trunk of the body (from Old English būc) and partly from Old Norse bulki cargo, heap bhel-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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