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▪ I. husky, n.1|ˈhʌskɪ|
Also -ey, -ie.
[Supposed to be a corrupted contraction of Eskimo.]
a. An Eskimo. Also attrib.
b. The Eskimo language.
[1743J. Isham Obs. Hudson's Bay (1949) 155 Among'st the Northward Indians, and Ehuskemay's they have neither of these beasts.] 1830in K. G. Davies N. Quebec & Labrador Jrnl. & Corr. (1963) 115 There was a cry that the river was full of Hoskies (Esquimaux). 1864C. F. Hall Life among Esquimaux I. 66 Carl Petersen no speak Husky..quick. 1889Pall Mall G. 25 Apr. 6/3 The Indians were terribly afraid of the Esquimaux, who up there are called Huskeys. 192219th Cent. Feb. 274 As a seamstress the ‘husky’ woman has no equal.
c. An Eskimo dog. Also husky dog.
1852R. Collinson Jrnl. H.M.S. Enterprise 1850–55 (1889) 218 On his way to the ship [the dog] was kidnapped by the natives, and not being of a pure huski breed, would most likely be prized by them. 1872Canadian Monthly Oct. 307/1 The ‘huskie’ or Esquimaux dogs..are only fed once a day. 1878Sask. Herald (Battleford, N.W.T.) 18 Nov. 3/1, I had with me a ‘Huskie’ dog. 1886Colonial & Indian Exhib. Rep. Col. Sect. 75 The original Husky has always been an animal requiring firm treatment. 1896Blackw. Mag. May 682 The original Newfoundland was but little removed from the native ‘huskie’, and therefore from the timber-wolf of North America. 1947New Biol. III. 152 The most widely used type of sleigh dog is the huskie, employed mainly by Eskimos. 1970Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 22 Feb. 5/1 We now had about 30 husky dogs on deck, and the noise they made when they all howled together was blood-curdling.
▪ II. husky, n.2 U.S.|ˈhʌskɪ|
[f. husky a. 1 b.]
A strong, stoutly-built person; one whose appearance suggests strength and force.
1864Old Piute (Virginia, Nev.) 17 May, He demanded to see the Charter of the concern, which was read by the Rev. Geo. Birdsall, in his usual impressive manner, and the ‘husky’ accepted the apology. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxix. 305 It was a beautiful time to give the crowd the slip; but that big husky had me by the wrist. 1916C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 60 The real huskies that are doing the work of the world. 1929W. Heyliger Builder of Dam v. 46 You're going to need muscle, and he's a husky. 1945Jefferson Co. Republican (Golden, Colo.) 26 Sept. 1/3 One faculty member who strayed too close to the Washington Avenue bridge was picked up bodily by ten huskies and tossed in the murky waters below.
▪ III. husky, a.|ˈhʌskɪ|
[f. husk n.1 + -y.]
1. a. Full of, containing, or consisting of husks; of the nature of a husk.
1552Huloet, Huskye, or ful of huskes, siliquosus. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 315 Most have found A husky Harvest, from the grudging Ground. 1711E. Ward Quix. I. 70 And made the husky Food go down. 1794T. Stone Agric. Surv. Linc. 74 (E.D.S.) Large ant-hills, producing sour, coarse, husky sedge, or sword-grass. 1819H. Busk Vestriad iv. 147 Browsing the jagged leaf or husky ear. 1905Daily Chron. 14 Sept. 3/6, I have always understood that brown bread is far superior to white bead in muscle-making power and (unless very husky) in digestibility.
b. Tough and strong (like a corn-husk); big, strong, and vigorous. Also transf. N. Amer.
1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Folks xvii. 191 Them wild Injuns..they're so kind o' wild, and birchy, and husky as a body may say. 1889Kansas City (Missouri) Times & Star 1 Apr., Mike Burnett, the husky ex-fire chief. 1894Outing XXIV. 447/1 He lit out of the country soon as he got husky enough to travel. 1897Ibid. XXX. 364/2 A husky run down old Ontario in a gale from the West brought Nox into Charlotte harbor. 1906Eye Opener (Calgary) Aug. 1/6 Watty himself is a husky all-round athlete. 1909S. E. White Rules of Game i. ix. 51 Good food and leisure and heredity gave me a husky build. 1932J. Dos Passos 1919 263 Husky looking young men in khaki. 1958Times 29 Nov. 9/3 If something more husky is preferred, one can camp or stay in one of the small uninhabited cabins which are to be found throughout Lapland.
†2. Having or consisting of a chrysalis case. (Cf. husk n.1 2 b.) Obs.
1655G. S. in Hartlib Ref. Commw. Bees 22 Wormes..which after turn into Flies, and so again into other husky Wormes without motion, and from them to other flying Insects. 1734Watts Reliq. Juv., Medit. 1st May, Other families of them have forsaken their husky beds, and exult, and glitter in the warm sun-beams.
3. Dry, as a husk; without natural moisture, arid. lit. and fig.
1599Soliman & Perseda i. A ij a, A tale wherein she lately hath bestowed, The huskie humor of her bloudy quill. c1694Addison Virg., Georg. iv. (R.), Cut their dry and husky wax away. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 152 We had also for the most part very dry husky winds. 1729Switzer Hydrost. & Hydraul. 132 Grounds..of a dry, gravelly, husky Nature. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. i, His translation is hard, dry, and husky, as the outside of a cocoa-nut. 1846Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VII. ii. 523 The soil becomes dusty, or husky..that is, like a dry sponge. 1896P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 441 There was also a possibility that it [tobacco] would become husky from repeated sweatings.
4. Of persons and their voice: Dry in the throat, so that the timbre of the voice is lost, and its sound approaches more or less a hoarse whisper. (An effect of continued speaking, laryngeal inflammation, or violent emotion.)
a1722Lisle Husb. 343 (E.D.S.) They have in Wilts a disease on their cows, which they call a hask or husky cough. 1740Dyche & Pardon, Husky,..spoken of a person that has phlegm sticking in his throat, which occasions him to speak imperfectly. 1770Foote Lame Lover i. 12 Weezy (who, between ourselves, is as husky as hell). 1831J. Morison in Morisoniana 420 A deep husky cough. 1858Longfellow M. Standish iv. 122 His voice was husky with anger. |