words words and more words need help!

[mickeym]

Copied with permission from zortified:

OK, this is serious. We have one dictionary that lists "to speak or sing in a husky manner" as a definition for "husked." And we have another dictionary that does NOT so list.

So we need to check more dictionaries. We need paper dictionaries, not online (because, dur we can check those already.) I would love it if someone could check the O.E.D for us as well!

Listing as Definition
Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, copyright 1994, lists this definition.
Webster's Third New International Unabridged

Not Listing as Definition
Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary, copyright 1994 does NOT list this as a definition.
The Oxford Concise Australian Dictionary
O.E.D
The American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd Ed.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Tenth Edition
Macquarie Australian dictionary
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1983)

Please help this poor one-dictionaried word-geek and add to this list so we can determine whether or not "husked" can be used to describe the way a person says something. Bonus points if you come back from looking it up and admit you spent a few minutes reading the dictionary. ;-)

(If you need/want the backstory to how this came about, it's here.)

Comments

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1989, Palmer House, lists it (or rather as a def for "husk", not "husked")

Everything I've check that's ~1920 or earlier doesn't list it; I can't find my dictionaries from the 50s and 70s.

The earlier definitions of "husky" tend toward dry and unpleasant rather than sexy; I'm curious when that changed,t oo.