husky

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌs.ki/

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• Rhymes: -ʌski

From husk +‎ -y; in relation to voice, from the sense "dry as a husk" or "tough as a husk".

husky (comparative huskier, superlative huskiest)

1. (of a voice) Hoarse and rough-sounding.
2. (US, euphemistic) Burly, stout.
   • 1910, Hamlin Garland, Other Main-Travelled Roads:

     You look like a good, husky man to pitch in the barnyard […]

   • 1965, Popular Mechanics, September issue, page 22:

     Word got around quickly that this plane, which has been flying since January, is bigger and huskier than our proposed C-5A […]

3. (US) A modifier for boys' clothing sizes that fit a large waist or chest.
4. Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Some swains have sown before: but most have found
     A husky harvest from the grudging ground.

5. (slang, archaic) Belligerent; hostile and uncooperative.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     “Well, here it is,” said Silver. “We want that treasure, and we’ll have it — that’s our point! You would just as soon save your lives, I reckon; and that’s yours. You have a chart, haven’t you?”
     “That’s as may be,” replied the captain.
     “Oh, well, you have, I know that,” returned Long John. “You needn’t be so husky with a man; there ain’t a particle of service in that, and you may lay to it. What I mean is, we want your chart. Now, I never meant you no harm, myself.”

• huskily
• huskiness

Shortening of husky dog, where husky is ultimately from the same Old Montagnais root as Eskimo.

Two Alaskan huskies in harness

husky (plural huskies)

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

• huskie

• polar dog

• Mackenzie River husky

• Husky (“an Eskimo person; an Eskimo language”) (dated)
• Eskimo

• husky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:husky on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from English husky.

husky m anim

1. husky (breed of dog)

husky

1. (informal) inflection of huska:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

   Synonyms: husy, husičky

From English husky.

husky m (definite singular huskyen, indefinite plural huskyer, definite plural huskyene)

1. a husky (breed of dog)

• “husky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English husky.

husky m (definite singular huskyen, indefinite plural huskyar, definite plural huskyane)

1. husky (breed of dog)

Unadapted borrowing from English husky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxas.ki/

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• Rhymes: -aski
• Syllabification: hus‧ky

husky m animal (indeclinable)

1. husky (dog)

• husky in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• husky in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English husky.

husky m (plural huskys)

1. husky (dogs)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.