Husky

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Hoarse or rough in quality: a voice husky with emotion.
  • adj. Resembling a husk.
  • adj. Containing husks.
  • adj. Strongly built; burly.
  • adj. Heavily built: clothing sizes for husky boys.
  • n. A husky person.
  • n. A dog of a breed developed in Siberia for pulling sleds and having a dense, variously colored coat. Also called Siberian husky.
  • n. A similar dog of Arctic origin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. hoarse and rough-sounding
  • adj. burly, thick; fat, overweight
  • n. Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.
  • adj. Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous.
  • adj. Powerful; strong; burly.
  • n. An Eskimo.
  • n. The Eskimo language.
  • n. an Eskimo dog, especially a breed of strong heavy-coated dogs used to pull dogsleds in the Northern regions of North America.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Abounding with, consisting of, or resembling husks; hence, poor, unprofitable, etc.
  • Dry in the throat; hoarse; harsh; sounding roughly: said of the voice or utterance.
  • n. A kind of dog used in drawing sleds in the Hudson's Bay territory.
  • n. Rough and big; rough and energetic; burly: as; a husky fellow.
  • n. A ‘husky’ fellow; an energetic man; a hustler.
  • n. An Eskimo.
  • n. The Eskimo language.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog
  • adj. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
  • adj. muscular and heavily built
  • Equivalent
    cacophonous    cacophonic    robust   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    huskier    huskiest   
    Form
    huskily   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    harsh    hoarse    raucous    powerful    strong    burly    Eskimo    hull    polar dog   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Muskie    Sandusky    muskie    musky   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hoarse    throaty    gruff    harsh    breathless    tremulous    sexy    raucous    resonant    rasp