tuskyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 tusky, equivalent to tusk +‎ -y.

形容詞

tusky (comparative tuskier, superlative tuskiest)

1. Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.

   Synonyms: betusked, tusked

   • 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:

     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?

語源 2

名詞

tusky (uncountable)

1. (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.

アナグラム

• skuyt

語源

From tusk +‎ -y.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtuskiː/

形容詞

tusky

1. (rare, Late Middle English) tusky (having tusks, betusked)

   Synonym: tuskyd

派生した語

• English: tusky

参照

• “tuskī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 July 2018.