husk
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /hʌsk/
[edit] Etymology 1
Probably from Low German hūske ‘little house, sheath’ (cognate with Middle Dutch huskjin > Dutch huisken), diminutive of hūs ‘house’.
[edit] Noun
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husk (plural husks)
- The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
- A coconut has a very thick husk.
- Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
- His attorney was a dried up husk of a man, ready for the grave, with one foot already inside and another on a banana peel.
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[edit] Verb
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to husk (third-person singular simple present husks, present participle husking, simple past and past participle husked)
- (transitive) To remove husk(s) from.
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- Icelandic: afhýða
[edit] Etymology 2
Partly imitative, partly from Etymology 1, above, influenced by husky.
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to husk (third-person singular simple present husks, present participle husking, simple past and past participle husked)
- (transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
- The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked, "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched. — Naomi Novik, "His Majesty's Dragon"
[edit] See also
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The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary, 2nd Ed., Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1978
[edit] Danish
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /husk/, [husɡ̊]
[edit] Verb
husk
- Imperative of huske. (remember)

