tusky
English
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtʌs.ki/
- Rhymes: -ʌski
Etymology 1
    
From Middle English tusky, equivalent to tusk + -y.
Adjective
    
Noun
    
tusky (uncountable)
- (dialect, Yorkshire) rhubarb, sticks from that vegetable
- 1987 [1981], Tony Harrison, “The Rhubarbarians II”, in Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' (Poetry), London: Rex Collins, →ISBN:- […] mi little stick of Leeds grown tusky draws
 galas of rhubarb from the MET-set palms.
 
 
Anagrams
    
Middle English
    
    Alternative forms
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtuskiː/
Descendants
    
- English: tusky
References
    
- “tuskī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.
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