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Husky   /hˈəski/   Listen
Husky

adjective
1.
Muscular and heavily built.  Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping.  "Had a tall burly frame" , "Clothing sizes for husky boys" , "A strapping boy of eighteen" , "'buirdly' is a Scottish term"
2.
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion.  Synonyms: gruff, hoarse.  "The dog's gruff barking" , "Hoarse cries" , "Makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"
noun
(pl. huskies)
1.
Breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog.  Synonym: Eskimo dog.



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"Husky" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rural messenger in his husky tones; "I'm none of your Peeping Toms." And the postman drew up his head with as much pride of office as could be assumed by a gentleman of bowed ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine

... rose upon a pair of emphatically bowed legs and shook hands. "I'm pretty smart," he observed, in a husky voice. Then he sat down again. Galusha, after waiting a moment, sat down also. Primmie seemed to be wrestling with a mental problem, but characteristically she could not ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... said Dick Bannock, with his voice sounding husky out of the darkness; and there was silence, broken only by a groan or two for a few minutes, during which Mark, feeling the terrible responsibility of his position, tried to make some plan as to his future proceedings, ...
— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn

... answers in a husky voice, as if very dry, "It is my nature to; that's all you know, turning us to moral purposes, and making us a tiresome metaphor. We are much like you human creatures—only we don't compare ourselves continually with others. We just ...
— The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 - A Typographic Art Journal • Various

... had bidden all his liege lords and vassals— Hubert the Husky, Edward the Earwig, Rollo the ...
— Nonsense Novels • Stephen Leacock


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