Husker vs Tusker - What's the difference?
husker | tusker |
One who husks (as one who removes the husks, leaves, from ears of corn).
(US, slang) A fan or supporter of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the sports teams of the University of Nebraska.
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An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
* 1928 June, Fred Graves, Houdini of the Desert: Face to Face with Savage Elephants'', '' ,
* 1998 , Alexander Moore, Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings ,
As nouns the difference between husker and tusker
is that husker is one who husks (as one who removes the husks, leaves, from ears of corn) while tusker is an animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks or tusker can be (uk|orkney|shetland) a tool used in peat cutting.husker
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(en noun)tusker
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Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)page 19,
- The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.
page 267,
- Negotiations to acquire a fine tusker' from one young partner in another village fell through; so on the eve of the actual feast, Songi humiliated him by asking him to come to the feast as if he were the rival chief, the guest of honor. The man was deeply shamed by the invitation since he could not possibly reciprocate, and he had to send the ' tusker itself as payment for the invitation gifts.