Husky
['hʌskɪ] or ['hʌski]
Definition
(n.) Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.
(a.) Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Dry, shrivelled.[2]. Hoarse, rough, raucous, harsh.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HOARSE]
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Definition
adj. hoarse as the voice: rough in sound.—adv. Husk′ily.—n. Husk′iness.
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Examples
- Joe patted the coverlet on my shoulder with his great good hand, and said, in what I thought a husky voice, Good night! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Thou, she said and her husky voice was fond again. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It's the boy, said Rawdon in a husky voice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You get husky bread and sour drink by it; and he gets sausage of Lyons, veal in savoury jelly, white bread, strachino cheese, and good wine by it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In voice, husky and low. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Below these in force, above them in pitch, a dwindled voice strove hard at a husky tune, which was the peculiar local sound alluded to. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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