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Definition of Husky

1. Noun. Breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog.

2. Adjective. Muscular and heavily built. "`buirdly' is a Scottish term"

3. Adjective. Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion. "Makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"

Definition of Husky

1. a. Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

2. a. Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.

3. a. Powerful; strong; burly.

4. n. An Eskimo; also, an Eskimo dog.

Definition of Husky

1. Adjective. (context: of a voice) hoarse and rough-sounding ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a person) burly, thick; fat, overweight ¹

3. Noun. Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Husky

1. hoarse [adj -KIER, -KIEST] / an Eskimo dog [n -KIES] - See also: hoarse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Husky

husker huskers huskie huskier huskies huskiest huskily huskiness huskinesses husking

husking bee huskings huskless husklike husks husky (current term) huso husos huss hussar

hussar monkey hussars husses hussies hussif hussifs hussy husting hustings

Literary usage of Husky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore, WITH husky-haughty lips, O sea ! Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions (I see and plainly list ..."

2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"WITH husky-HAUGHTY LIPS, O SEA!2 Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore, WITH husky-haughty lips, O sea ! Imaging to my sense thy varied strange ..."

3. American Poems (1625-1892) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1912)
"WITH husky-HAUGHTY LIPS, O SEA \Vith husky-haughty lips, O sea! Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange ..."

4. Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman, Oscar Lovell Triggs (1898)
"With husky-haughty lips, O sea ! Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list ..."

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