Meanings
nounhuskiness (countable and uncountable, plural huskinesses)
plural huskinesses
- countableuncountableThe property of being husky.
I strove vainly to force my fingers down on the triggers, and vainly I strove to say something. "Why don't you shoot?" he asked. I cleared my throat of a huskiness which prevented speech.
1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
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