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Meaning of husky

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  husky
      adj 1: 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}, {husky}, {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}, {husky}]
      n 1: breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog [syn: {Eskimo dog},
           {husky}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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