Synonyms:
beefy, burly, husky, strapping, buirdly
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
gruff, hoarse, husky
Meaning: 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
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
Eskimo_dog, husky
Meaning: breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog
Usage examples
"I will," he said, in a husky tone.
"Fine!" he repeated, with husky indignation.
"Don't you touch that deer," said I--my voice was so husky I could hardly speak--"don't you see it's surrendered?
"No go," she had said with a cavalier, husky intonation which was natural to her, and using turns of expression more suitable to a child of parents unknown than to the orphaned daughter of a general officer.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Laika, License CC BY-SA 4.0