husky
noun/ˈhʌski/
/ˈhʌski/
(North American English also huskie)
(plural huskies)
- a large strong dog with thick hair, used for pulling sledges across snowTopics Animalsc2Word Originnoun mid 19th cent. (originally denoting the Eskimo language or an Eskimo): abbreviation of obsolete Ehuskemay or Newfoundland dialect Huskemaw ‘Eskimo’ (see Eskimo). The term replaced the 18th-cent. term Eskimo dog.
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