Tusker vs Tuskier - What's the difference?

As a noun 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.

As an adjective tuskier is

(tusky).

tusker

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)

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'', '' , page 19,

The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.

* 1998 , Alexander Moore, Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings , 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.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) torfskeri, from .

Alternative forms

* tuskar * twiscar

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, Orkney, Shetland) A tool used in peat cutting.

tuskier

English

Adjective

(head)

(tusky)

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.