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▪ I. ˈmusky, n.1
A playful shortening of musk-rat (sense 1).
1884Chamb. Jrnl. 1 Nov. 704/1, I saw the dead musky being carried off.
▪ II. musky, n.2|ˈmʌskɪ|
Also muskie.
Short for muskallonge (see maskinonge).
1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 453/1 We were then all ready for old musky to begin his real fight. 1902Scribner's Mag. XXXI. 534 The familiar term, with which sportsmen have come to know him, the musky. 1928Game Fishes of Canada 12 The next most definite cult among the anglers are those who devote themselves to muskies. 1936G. Clark Which we Did i. 20 Jimmie Frise..was successfully commissaried by me to our favorite muskie water for the closing day of the season. 1962Times 12 Apr. 7/3 Waterways full of bass, northern pike and muskies. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 40/1 They recaptured these previously marked fish: 13 walleyes, three smallmouth bass, 11 largemouth bass, but not one musky. 1975G. V. Higgins City on Hill ix. 215, I should spend my days..going after muskies and telling lies when I didn't catch any.
▪ III. musky, a.|ˈmʌskɪ|
Also 7 muskie.
[f. musk n. + -y.]
1. Smelling, or tasting of musk; having a taste or smell like that of musk; perfumed with musk.
c1610Rowlands Terrible Batt. 13 A Muskie-Gentle, we did visit then, A Silken Gallant. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 502 Muske is made of a certaine beast called Gudderi,..which once in the Moone sheddeth his muskie bloud. 1634Milton Comus 989 West winds, with musky wing About the cedar'n alleys fling Nard, and Cassia's balmy smels. 1769Sir W. Jones Palace Fortune Poems, etc. (1777) 15 The floating ringlets of his musky hair. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 34 The musky seeds of Hibiscus Abelmoschus. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xxv, Holding a most musky pocket-handkerchief up to his face. 1888Graphic 21 Jan. 54 The musky flesh of the animal [sc. a crocodile].
fig.1858Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Persian Poetry Wks. (Bohn) III. 247 The garden flowers are never wanting in these musky verses. 1901Henley in Pall Mall Mag. Oct. 262 [Rossetti] His musky, strenuous, high-piled achievements in words.
b. As a specific name for animals and plants.
1781Pennant Hist. Quadrup. II. 476 Shrew, Musky... Muscovy or Musk rat. 1822Hortus Anglicus II. 82 Ajuga Iva. Musky Bugle. 1885Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Musky-mole, Scaptochirus moschatus. [= musk-mole: see musk n. 4 e.]
2. Of an odour, taste, etc.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 775 Some rich sables of muskie sent. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 47/2 A Musk Pear..is..of a Musky Taste. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 107 The musky flavour of the apricot. 1862Burton Bk. Hunter i. 44 A sort of indistinct slightly musky perfume, like that said to frequent Oriental bazaars. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 228 It does not remove the musky taste from crocodile.
Comb.1831Tennyson Anacreontics in Germ 131 With roses musky-breathed. 1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Adoxa, The musky-scented flowers.
Hence ˈmuskiness, the quality of being musky; a musky odour or taste.
1727in Bailey vol. II. 1755 in Johnson; and in later Dicts. |