<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Who knows? Have a hulky day. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 3:23 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 7:57 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br>
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> What am I doing this weekend? Hulking around. (no, not 'rise massively!) bill w<br>
><br>
> Related entries & more<br>
> hulk (v.)<br>
> "to be clumsy, unwieldy, or lazy," 1789, from hulk (n.) or a back-formation from<br>
> hulking. Meaning "rise massively" is from 1880. Related: Hulked; hulking.<br>
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A problem would be getting that to catch on. In college, a friend of<br>
mine tried to get words to catch -- either new usages or recovering<br>
archaic ones -- but none of that seemed to work for him. To be sure, I<br>
thought it would be difficult for someone who didn't have a large<br>
following and wasn't in the limelight to become the vanguard of<br>
language change.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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