husky

  • (s) 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
    beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping,
  • (s) 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
    hoarse, gruff,

Nouns

  • (n) breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog Eskimo dog,

Synonyms

Eskimo dog beefy buirdly burly strapping hoarse gruff

Words of close approximity

hush husk Huss
hussy