husky

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Her aloofness was extreme (even for a husky, which is generally not an instant-bonding dog like, say, a Lab), and time and our displays of love were having no impact.

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  1. adjective Hoarse or rough in quality: a voice husky with emotion.
  2. adjective Resembling a husk.
  3. adjective Containing husks.

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  • Her aloofness was extreme (even for a husky, which is generally not an instant-bonding dog like, say, a Lab), and time and our displays of love were having no impact. —  USATODAY.com News - Top Stories
  • To me the Alaskan husky is the most amazing domesticated animal there is. —  NYT > Travel
  • The malamute and the husky are the two chief sources of the white man's dog teams, though cross-breeding with setters and pointers, hounds of various sorts, mastiffs, Saint Bernards, and Newfoundlands has resulted in a general admixture of breeds, so that the work dogs of Alaska are an heterogeneous lot to-day. —  Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
  • His voice was husky, and his eyes were turned away, but they were not looking at the dancers. —  Mary Marie
  • When I looked at those youngsters of his--husky, bare-armed, round-cheeked children, I knew they were getting a lot of happiness you'd never know in this little corner of ours--the kind of happiness you can only have when you are young." —  Keineth
 

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hoarse ·  throaty ·  gruff ·  harsh ·  breathless ·  tremulous ·  sexy ·  raucous ·  resonant ·  rasp ·  vibrant ·  plaintive
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  1. From husk.
  2. Perhaps from husk.
  3. Probably from shortening and alteration of Eskimo.

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  1. from husk + -y.
  2. A variant (after husk) of English dial, hasky, dry, rough, unpleasant, hask, dry, rough, harsh, parched: see hask, harsk, harsh. According to Skeat, husky stands for *husty or *hausty, from haust, hoast, host, a dry cough.
  3. Said to be a corruption of Eskimo.
 

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