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tusky

/ˈtʌs.ki/

tusky adjective: having tusks, especially prominent tusks.

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

Noun

tusky (uncountable)

  1. (Yorkshire, dialectal) rhubarb, sticks from that vegetable
    • […] mi little stick of Leeds grown tusky draws
      galas of rhubarb from the MET-set palms.1987 [1981], Tony Harrison, “The Rhubarbarians II”, in Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' (Poetry), London: Rex Collins, →ISBN

tusky meaning in Hindi

tusky in Hindi

tusky, having large projecting teeth
दँतीला dãtīlā

Synonyms of tusky

Forms of tusky

comparativetuskier
superlativetuskiest

Origin of tusky

From Middle English tusky, equivalent to tusk + -y.

Words that rhyme with tusky

Questions about tusky

What does tusky mean?
Tusky means having tusks, especially prominent tusks.
What is tusky in Hindi?
Tusky in Hindi is दँतीला (dãtīlā). See Tusky meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tusky?
Tusky can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce tusky?
Tusky is pronounced /ˈtʌs.ki/.

Words near tusky in the dictionary

  1. tuskless
  2. tusklessness
  3. tusklike
  4. tusks
  5. tuskwise
  6. tusky
  7. Tuson
  8. tusovka
  9. tusovkas
  10. tusovki
  11. tuss

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tusky (page history and authors); दँतीला (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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