Tuskiest vs Huskiest - What's the difference?
tuskiest | huskiest |
(tusky)
(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)
Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.
*1697: John Dryden, The Aeneid translated from Virgil (Book I, line 448)
(husky)
(of a voice) hoarse and rough-sounding
burly, thick; fat, overweight
* 1965 , Popular Mechanics, September issue,
Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.
Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs
As adjectives the difference between tuskiest and huskiest
is that tuskiest is (tusky) while huskiest is (husky).tuskiest
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Adjective
(head)tusky
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Noun
(-)- ... mi little stick of Leeds grown tusky draws /galas of rhubarb from the MET-set palms.
Adjective
(er)- ... And at full cry pursued the tusky boar.
huskiest
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*husky
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Etymology 1
; in relation to voice, from the sense "dry as a husk" or "tough as a husk".Adjective
(er)page 22
- Word got around quickly that this plane, which has been flying since January, is bigger and huskier than our proposed C-5A
- (Dryden)
