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tuskier

tuskier is the comparative form of tusky.

Meaning of tusky

Adjective

tusky (comparative tuskier, superlative tuskiest)

  1. Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.
    • Ho! Strangers! have you lately ſeen, ſhe ſaid, / One of my Siſters, like my ſelf array’d; […] Vary’d with Spots, a Linx’s Hide ſhe wore: / And at full Cry purſu’d the tusky Boar?1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 214, lines...
    Synonyms:
    betusked, tusked

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Questions about tuskier

What is tuskier the comparative form of?
Tuskier is the comparative form of tusky.

Words near tuskier in the dictionary

  1. Tuskegees
  2. tusker
  3. tuskers
  4. tuskfish
  5. tuskfishes
  6. tuskier
  7. tuskiest
  8. tusking
  9. tuskings
  10. tuskless
  11. tusklessness

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