1. Muscular and heavily built
   "clothing sizes for husky boys";
   - beefy, burly, strapping, buirdly
    
2. Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting, illness or emotion
   "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky";
   - gruff, hoarse

1. Breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog
   "The team of huskies pulled the sled across the frozen tundra";
   - Eskimo dog

Derived forms: huskier, huskiest, huskies

See also: cacophonic, cacophonous, robust

Type of: working dog

Encyclopedia: Husky, Dusky Day