| 单词 | husky |
| 释义 | husky (once / 598 pages) 1adj 2adj 3n If your voice is low and gruff, it's husky. A deep, gravelly voice is husky, and you're husky if you have a large, muscled, heavy body. You might even be a husky person with a husky voice. When husky is a noun, it's a northern breed of dog that's bred to pull a sled. Your Alaskan Husky could have a husky bark, and your voice might be the result of a bad cold, or it just might be the normal way you speak. The husky that describes a voice comes from husk, in the sense of "dry as a husk." The husky dog's root is from 1850s Canadian English, hoskey, "Eskimo," or "Eskimo dog." WORD FAMILYhusky: huskier, huskies, huskiest, huskily, huskiness USAGE EXAMPLESCormorants gather on a light standard high above the Husky Ballpark next to the Union Bay Natural Area. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “People think what they think,” Ms. Bening said with her husky voice. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Huskies remain the unanimous No. 1 team in the poll Monday after beating then-No. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 adj deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion 2"makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson Syn gruff, hoarse cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound adj muscular and heavily built 3clothing sizes for husky boys Syn beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping robust sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction n breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog Syn|Hyper Eskimo dog working dog any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs |
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