tusky

adj, noun — 2 senses

tusky

adj

/ˈtʌs.ki/

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

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 443–444 and 447–448:

tusky

noun

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:

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