[
US
/ˈhəski/
]
[ UK /hˈʌski/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌski/ ]
NOUN
- breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog
ADJECTIVE
-
muscular and heavily built
had a tall burly frame
clothing sizes for husky boys
a beefy wrestler
a strapping boy of eighteen
`buirdly' is a Scottish term -
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky
the dog's gruff barking
gruff voices
hoarse cries
How To Use husky In A Sentence
- The first night we showed up we stayed over top of the "Husky Pub" (husky is short for Huskissen, the town). TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- Throat surgery left her with a distinctive husky voice. The Sun
- It destroyed his tenor voice and his familiar cracked, husky tones took over. Times, Sunday Times
- The husky female voice on the other end explained in mangled Franglish that she would like to - merde!
- ‘I still haven't had the pleasure of knowing your name,’ she murmured in a husky voice.
- Pretty good, Miss Green, the advisor called out with her usual restraint, hands on the hips of her gray sweats, her expression thoughtful A compact woman with frizzy brown hair and a somewhat plain face, Miss Green had a husky voice that always sounded as if she had laryngitis. The Second Evil
- I used a very tall, husky double for the scenes where you see all of him. Times, Sunday Times
- Jacki's face was so fierce, her voice husky with a tensile fear so pure that he answered her immediately. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
- Tak the drunkard frae his whusky, the deboshed frae his debosh, the sweirer frae his aiths, the leear frae his lees; and giena ony o 'them ower muckle o' yer siller at ance, for fear 'at they grow fat an' kick an 'defy God and you. Robert Falconer
- His voice dropped to a husky whisper.