huskyadjective
uk/ˈhʌs.ki/us/ˈhʌs.ki/husky adjective (VOICE)
A voice that is husky is low and rough, often in an attractive way, or because of illness:
She's got a nice husky voice - very sexy.
You sound husky - do you have a cold?
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Describing qualities of the human voice
- aloud
- break
- breathy
- dulcet
- gruff
- guttural
- honeyed
- lilting
- rough
- soft-spoken
- stentorian
- strangled
- strangulated
- throaty
- tone
- toned
- toneless
- vocal
- voice
- voiced
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husky adjective (STRONG)
US A husky man or boy is big and strong.
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Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- ample
- baby fat
- beefy
- blubber
- broad in the beam idiom
- buxom
- chubby
- dumpy
- fatness
- fatten sb/sth up
- fatty
- heavyset
- middle-age spread
- obese
- obesity
- pudgy
- puppy fat
- roly-poly
- rotund
- well built
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huskynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhʌs.ki/us/ˈhʌs.ki/a large dog with long thick fur, used for pulling sledges over the snow
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Canines (dogs)
- Afghan hound
- Alsatian
- basset hound
- beagle
- bird dog
- dog
- doggy
- fox terrier
- foxhound
- German shepherd
- mastiff
- mongrel
- mutt
- Pekinese
- pit bull terrier
- spaniel
- St Bernard
- terrier
- tracker dog
- vixen
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