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huskier

a. (en-comparativehusky)

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huskier

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husky
  1. adj. muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term" [syn: beefy, burly, strapping, buirdly]

  2. 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"- Virgil Thomson [syn: gruff, hoarse]

  3. n. breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog [syn: Eskimo dog]

  4. [also: huskiest, huskier]

Usage examples of "huskier".

It was Bevan indeed, looking slight as a boy among the huskier men of the keep.

The senator beamed at the camera, huskier than Marko remembered, his arms draped across the shoulders of his daughter and his pretty, dark-haired wife.

Torch closed his eyes and sank slowly into a chair as her words came back to him in that smoky voice, made huskier by pain.

Most of their clothing was made from bark and fibers stripped from the long, sinuous leaves of the local trees, but many of the huskier and better-armed men wore an item or two which had been sucked here from outside.

Even the biggest drunken brute had to sleep sometime, though the odds were that a few of the huskier men in the borough would have taught the fellow a lesson before then.

But a Wellearn transformed, bigger, huskier, and infinitely more self-confident than the callow youth who had set forth in spring.