huskyn.¹adj.²

Brit.

/ˈhʌski/, U.S.

/ˈhəski/

Forms: 1800s hosky, 1800s huskey, 1800s huski, 1800s– huskie, 1800s– husky.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: Eskimo n.

Etymology: Shortened < Huskemaw, Ehuskemay, etc., variants of Eskimo n. (compare the β. forms at that entry); with the final vowel compare the medial vowel of Eskimo and the corresponding vowel in its etymons.With senses A. 2 and B. 2 compare earlier Eskimo n. 3 and Eskimo dog n. at Eskimo n. and adj. Compounds.

A. n.¹

a. An Inuit. Now rare. Cf. Eskimo n.

ΚΠ

1830 in K. G. Davies N. Quebec & Labrador Jrnls. & Corr. (1963) 115 There was a cry that the river was full of Hoskies (Esquimaux).

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Apr. 6/3 The Indians were terribly afraid of the Esquimaux, who up there are called Huskeys.

1975 F. Mowat Snow Walker (1978) 146 Sooner or later all the Huskies got it... It would be no kindness to fly her out to the little hospital at Yellowknife.

†b. Any of the several languages of the Inuit. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Eskimo-Aleut > [noun]

Greenlandish1767

Eskimo1819

Greenlandic1820

husky1864

Aleut1872

Inuk1884

Inuit1901

Yuit1909

Eskimo-Aleut1913

Inupiaq1947

Inupik1951

Yupik1951

Yuk1962

Inuktitut1974

1864 C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux I. 66 Carl Petersen no speak Husky..quick.

2. A husky dog (see sense B. 2).Eskimo husky, Siberian husky: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that pulls sled

sled-dog1692

husky1871

outrunner1894

wheel-dog1922

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Spitz > types of

Eskimo dog1774

Eskimo1830

husky1871

elk-hound1878

Malamute1884

schipperke1887

Samoyed1889

skip1895

Eskimo husky1896

laika1905

keeshond1926

Akita1928

Siberian1928

Finnish Spitz1930

Siberian husky1930

1871 A. Begg Dot it Down xviii. 244 The dogs used for drawing loads during the winter in the North-West, are of a species of cross between the dog and the wolf, and are usually called ‘huskies’.

1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 75 The original Husky has always been an animal requiring firm treatment.

1947 New Biol. 3 152 The most widely used type of sleigh dog is the huskie, employed mainly by Eskimos.

1993 E. M. Thomas Hidden Life of Dogs 1 While friends spent six months in Europe, I took care of their husky, Misha.

2006 Sight & Sound Sept. 36/1 They're dressed in caribou furs and polar-bear trousers and have a dog team pulled by eight white Arctic huskies.

B. adj.²

1. Of, belonging to, or relating to the Inuit or their language.

ΚΠ

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvi. 424 I am writing in the ‘Hosky’ House of Cristiansen.

1872 C. A. Stephens On the Amazons 224 He was rather more intelligent than the average Husky man.

1922 19th Cent. Feb. 274 As a seamstress the ‘husky’ woman has no equal.

1949 P. Scott Jrnl. 12 July in Wild Geese & Eskimos (1951) 144 I learned some more Eskimo phrases—‘Husky language’, as he called it.

2. Designating a (breed of) large, powerful dog, typically having a thick double coat, pointed muzzle, long bushy tail, and erect ears, originally used in the Arctic for pulling sleds and now also popular as pets. Cf. sense A. 2.Most husky dogs are cross-breeds bred specifically for their ability to pull sleds, in contrast to the Siberian husky and Eskimo husky, which are recognized breeds.

ΚΠ

1872 Canad. Monthly Oct. 307/1 The ‘huskie’ or Esquimaux dogs..are only fed once a day.

1878 Sask. Herald (Battleford) 18 Nov. 3/1 I had with me a ‘Huskie’ dog.

1889 R. Collinson & T. B. Collinson Jrnl. H.M.S. Enterprise 1850–55 218 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.

1915 A. J. Dawson Jan xxxv. 256 Toward morning, when the fire was practically out, the husky bitch came timidly nosing about.

1970 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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.

2003 L. Winslette Siberian Husky 32 (caption) Husky pups can inherit beautiful markings, but, unfortunately, they can also inherit health problems.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

huskyn.²

Brit.

/ˈhʌski/, U.S.

/ˈhəski/

Etymology: < husky adj.¹ 1b.

U.S.

A strong, stoutly-built person; one whose appearance suggests strength and force.

ΚΠ

1864 Old Piute (Virginia City, Nevada) 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 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxix. 258 It was a beautiful time to give the crowd the slip; but that big husky had me by the wrist.

1916 C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 60 The real huskies that are doing the work of the world.

1929 W. Heyliger Builder of Dam v. 46 You're going to need muscle, and he's a husky.

1945 Jefferson Co. Republican (Golden, Colorado) 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

huskyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈhʌski/, U.S.

/ˈhəski/

Etymology: < husk n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

a. Full of, containing, or consisting of husks; of the nature of a husk.

ΚΠ

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Huskye, or ful of huskes, siliquosus.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 58 Most have found A husky Harvest, from the grudging Ground.

1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote i. iv. 70 And made the husky Food go down.

1794 T. Stone Gen. View Agric. Lincoln 74 Large ant-hills, producing sour, coarse, husky, sedge, or sword-glass.

1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 147 Browsing the jagged leaf or husky ear.

1905 Daily 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 transferred. North American.

ΚΠ

1894 Outing 24 447/1 He lit out of the country soon as he got husky enough to travel.

1897 Outing 30 364/2 A husky run down old Ontario in a gale from the West brought Nox into Charlotte harbor.

1906 Eye Opener (Calgary, Alberta) Aug. 1/6 Watty himself is a husky all-round athlete.

1909 S. E. White Rules of Game i. ix. 51 Good food and leisure and heredity gave me a husky build.

1932 J. Dos Passos 1919 263 Husky looking young men in khaki.

1958 Times 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 2b) Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1655 G. S. in S. Hartlib Reformed Common-wealth Bees 22 Wormes..which after turn into Flies, and so again into other husky Wormes without motion, and from them to other flying Insects.

1734 I. Watts Medit. 1st May in Reliquiæ Juveniles 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. literal and figurative.

ΚΠ

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. A2 A tale wherein she lately hath bestowed, The huskie humour of her bloudy quill.

c1694 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic iv. (R.) Cut their dry and husky wax away.

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 152 We had also for the most part very dry husky winds.

1729 S. Switzer Introd. Gen. Syst. Hydrostaticks & Hydraulicks 132 Grounds..of a dry, gravelly, husky Nature.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. i. 158 His translation is hard, dry, and husky, as the outside of a cocoa-nut.

1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 523 The soil becomes dusty, or husky..that is, like a dry sponge.

1896 P. 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.)

ΚΠ

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) II. 129 They have in Wilts a disease on their cows, which they call a hask, or husky cough.

1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Husky,..spoken of a Person that has Phlegm sticking in his Throat, which occasions him to speak imperfectly.

1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 12 Weezy (who, between ourselves, is as husky as hell).

1831 J. Morison in Morisoniana 420 A deep husky cough.

1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish iv. 122 His voice was husky with anger.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹adj.²1830

n.²1864

adj.¹1552

单词	husky
释义	huskyn.¹adj.² Brit. /ˈhʌski/, U.S. /ˈhəski/ Forms: 1800s hosky, 1800s huskey, 1800s huski, 1800s– huskie, 1800s– husky. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: Eskimo n. Etymology: Shortened < Huskemaw, Ehuskemay, etc., variants of Eskimo n. (compare the β. forms at that entry); with the final vowel compare the medial vowel of Eskimo and the corresponding vowel in its etymons.With senses A. 2 and B. 2 compare earlier Eskimo n. 3 and Eskimo dog n. at Eskimo n. and adj. Compounds. A. n.¹ 1. a. An Inuit. Now rare. Cf. Eskimo n. ΚΠ 1830 in K. G. Davies N. Quebec & Labrador Jrnls. & Corr. (1963) 115 There was a cry that the river was full of Hoskies (Esquimaux). 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Apr. 6/3 The Indians were terribly afraid of the Esquimaux, who up there are called Huskeys. 1975 F. Mowat Snow Walker (1978) 146 Sooner or later all the Huskies got it... It would be no kindness to fly her out to the little hospital at Yellowknife. †b. Any of the several languages of the Inuit. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Eskimo-Aleut > [noun] Greenlandish1767 Eskimo1819 Greenlandic1820 husky1864 Aleut1872 Inuk1884 Inuit1901 Yuit1909 Eskimo-Aleut1913 Inupiaq1947 Inupik1951 Yupik1951 Yuk1962 Inuktitut1974 1864 C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux I. 66 Carl Petersen no speak Husky..quick. 2. A husky dog (see sense B. 2).Eskimo husky, Siberian husky: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that pulls sled sled-dog1692 husky1871 outrunner1894 wheel-dog1922 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Spitz > types of Eskimo dog1774 Eskimo1830 husky1871 elk-hound1878 Malamute1884 schipperke1887 Samoyed1889 skip1895 Eskimo husky1896 laika1905 keeshond1926 Akita1928 Siberian1928 Finnish Spitz1930 Siberian husky1930 1871 A. Begg Dot it Down xviii. 244 The dogs used for drawing loads during the winter in the North-West, are of a species of cross between the dog and the wolf, and are usually called ‘huskies’. 1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 75 The original Husky has always been an animal requiring firm treatment. 1947 New Biol. 3 152 The most widely used type of sleigh dog is the huskie, employed mainly by Eskimos. 1993 E. M. Thomas Hidden Life of Dogs 1 While friends spent six months in Europe, I took care of their husky, Misha. 2006 Sight & Sound Sept. 36/1 They're dressed in caribou furs and polar-bear trousers and have a dog team pulled by eight white Arctic huskies. B. adj.² 1. Of, belonging to, or relating to the Inuit or their language. ΚΠ 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvi. 424 I am writing in the ‘Hosky’ House of Cristiansen. 1872 C. A. Stephens On the Amazons 224 He was rather more intelligent than the average Husky man. 1922 19th Cent. Feb. 274 As a seamstress the ‘husky’ woman has no equal. 1949 P. Scott Jrnl. 12 July in Wild Geese & Eskimos (1951) 144 I learned some more Eskimo phrases—‘Husky language’, as he called it. 2. Designating a (breed of) large, powerful dog, typically having a thick double coat, pointed muzzle, long bushy tail, and erect ears, originally used in the Arctic for pulling sleds and now also popular as pets. Cf. sense A. 2.Most husky dogs are cross-breeds bred specifically for their ability to pull sleds, in contrast to the Siberian husky and Eskimo husky, which are recognized breeds. ΚΠ 1872 Canad. Monthly Oct. 307/1 The ‘huskie’ or Esquimaux dogs..are only fed once a day. 1878 Sask. Herald (Battleford) 18 Nov. 3/1 I had with me a ‘Huskie’ dog. 1889 R. Collinson & T. B. Collinson Jrnl. H.M.S. Enterprise 1850–55 218 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. 1915 A. J. Dawson Jan xxxv. 256 Toward morning, when the fire was practically out, the husky bitch came timidly nosing about. 1970 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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. 2003 L. Winslette Siberian Husky 32 (caption) Husky pups can inherit beautiful markings, but, unfortunately, they can also inherit health problems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). huskyn.² Brit. /ˈhʌski/, U.S. /ˈhəski/ Etymology: < husky adj.¹ 1b. U.S. A strong, stoutly-built person; one whose appearance suggests strength and force. ΚΠ 1864 Old Piute (Virginia City, Nevada) 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 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxix. 258 It was a beautiful time to give the crowd the slip; but that big husky had me by the wrist. 1916 C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 60 The real huskies that are doing the work of the world. 1929 W. Heyliger Builder of Dam v. 46 You're going to need muscle, and he's a husky. 1945 Jefferson Co. Republican (Golden, Colorado) 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). huskyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈhʌski/, U.S. /ˈhəski/ Etymology: < husk n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Full of, containing, or consisting of husks; of the nature of a husk. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Huskye, or ful of huskes, siliquosus. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 58 Most have found A husky Harvest, from the grudging Ground. View more context for this quotation 1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote i. iv. 70 And made the husky Food go down. 1794 T. Stone Gen. View Agric. Lincoln 74 Large ant-hills, producing sour, coarse, husky, sedge, or sword-glass. 1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 147 Browsing the jagged leaf or husky ear. 1905 Daily 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 transferred. North American. ΚΠ 1894 Outing 24 447/1 He lit out of the country soon as he got husky enough to travel. 1897 Outing 30 364/2 A husky run down old Ontario in a gale from the West brought Nox into Charlotte harbor. 1906 Eye Opener (Calgary, Alberta) Aug. 1/6 Watty himself is a husky all-round athlete. 1909 S. E. White Rules of Game i. ix. 51 Good food and leisure and heredity gave me a husky build. 1932 J. Dos Passos 1919 263 Husky looking young men in khaki. 1958 Times 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 2b) Obsolete. ΚΠ 1655 G. S. in S. Hartlib Reformed Common-wealth Bees 22 Wormes..which after turn into Flies, and so again into other husky Wormes without motion, and from them to other flying Insects. 1734 I. Watts Medit. 1st May in Reliquiæ Juveniles 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. literal and figurative. ΚΠ ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. A2 A tale wherein she lately hath bestowed, The huskie humour of her bloudy quill. c1694 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic iv. (R.) Cut their dry and husky wax away. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 152 We had also for the most part very dry husky winds. 1729 S. Switzer Introd. Gen. Syst. Hydrostaticks & Hydraulicks 132 Grounds..of a dry, gravelly, husky Nature. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. i. 158 His translation is hard, dry, and husky, as the outside of a cocoa-nut. 1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 ii. 523 The soil becomes dusty, or husky..that is, like a dry sponge. 1896 P. 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.) ΚΠ a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) II. 129 They have in Wilts a disease on their cows, which they call a hask, or husky cough. 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Husky,..spoken of a Person that has Phlegm sticking in his Throat, which occasions him to speak imperfectly. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 12 Weezy (who, between ourselves, is as husky as hell). 1831 J. Morison in Morisoniana 420 A deep husky cough. 1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish iv. 122 His voice was husky with anger. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.²1830n.²1864adj.¹1552
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