tusky
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English tusky, equivalent to tusk + -y.
Adjective[edit]
tusky (comparative tuskier, superlative tuskiest)
- Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.
- Synonym: tusked
- 1697: John Dryden, The Aeneid translated from Virgil (Book I, line 448)
- […] And at full cry pursued the tusky boar.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
tusky (uncountable)
- (dialect, Yorkshire) rhubarb, sticks from that vegetable
- 1987 [1981], Tony Harrison, “The Rhubarbarians II”, in Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' (Poetry), London: Rex Collins, →ISBN:
- […] mi little stick of Leeds grown tusky draws
galas of rhubarb from the MET-set palms.
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tusky
- (rare, Late Middle English) tusky
- Synonym: tuskyd
Descendants[edit]
- English: tusky
References[edit]
- “tuskī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.
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