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Tusked vs Tusky - What's the difference?

tusked | tusky |

As adjectives the difference between tusked and tusky

is that tusked is furnished with tusks while tusky is having tusks, especially prominent tusks.

As a verb tusked

is (tusk).

As a noun tusky is

(yorkshire dialect) the sticks produced by the vegetable rhubarb.

tusked

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Furnished with tusks.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (tusk)

    • tusk

    English

    (wikipedia tusk)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
    • Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
  • A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  • A tusk shell.
  • (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth .

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  • (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.

    • Related terms

    * tusked * tusker * tusklike * tusky * tusk tenon

    References

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the torsk.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    tusky

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Yorkshire dialect) The sticks produced by the vegetable rhubarb
  • *1981: Tony Harrison, The Rhubarbarians II'' in collection ''Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' . Rex Collings, London (1981)
    • ... mi little stick of Leeds grown tusky draws /galas of rhubarb from the MET-set palms.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.
  • *1697: John Dryden, The Aeneid translated from Virgil (Book I, line 448)
    • ... And at full cry pursued the tusky boar.