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say it: HUH-skee
husky is an adjective and noun meaning "muscular and heavily built". It carries 3 recorded senses.
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
“gruff voices”
“the dog's gruff barking”
“hoarse cries”
“makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky”
breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for husky come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.