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husk

Best crossword clue

"Outer corn covering"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hʌsk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted hksuStarts with HEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. remove the husks from

Word origin

From Middle English huske, husk (“husk”). Perhaps from Old English *husuc, *hosuc (“little covering, sheath”), diminutive of hosu (“pod, shell, husk”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“covering, shell, leggings”), from Proto-Indo-European *kawəs- / kawes- (“cover”). If so, equivalent to hose + -ock.

Used in a sentence

  • A coconut has a very thick husk.
  • His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.
  • The symptoms of Husk are a constant cough, rapid loss of flesh, difficulty in breathing and, in the later stages, loss of appetite and diarrhœa.

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