Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or having the odor of musk.
- n. Variant of muskie.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the character, especially the odor, of musk; fragrant like musk.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having the scent of musk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like.
- n. The muskellunge.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. resembling the smell of musk
Examples
“Don't let your small pets swim in musky or giant pike country.”
“Bob was never stinky per se, but he had a certain musky quality about him.”
“A little farther on the air is musky from the crowded minarets of the horse chestnut – white marble splashed with rose – where the bumble bee drones.”
“But Do Son comes amazingly close to that idea through a composition of crisp green leaves that border on bitter and something that can only be called a musky iris (or maybe an iris-like musk?).”
“The musky is a fish that lives "large" in every respect - in physical size, in the food chain, in record-book controversy, in angling lore and in its attraction for anglers.”
“The scent is described as a musky-floral with notes of Sicilian lemon and peony peregrine.”
“The scent of this one is not really sweet, kind of musky and sexy, seems appropriate.”
“They fight each other, and they emit a "musky" smell which they the rub on the females.”
“Anna could suddenly smell him, sweat and some kind of musky deodorant and blood, maybe, a salty smell; and realized that she was standing very close to a large half-naked man in her kitchen, and that patching up his back might have broken down a wall a little before she'd intended.”
The Night Crew
“And there's an old-fashioned kind of musky smell, too, that always means Sunday clothes, and a tall pew, and a village choir. ”
The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
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