different between tusk vs tsk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Etymology 1

From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English t?sc (“canine tooth, tusk”), from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic ???????????????????????? (tunþus, “tooth”) and *???????????????????? (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.

Noun

tusk (plural tusks)

1. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.

   Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.

2. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
3. A tusk shell.
4. (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
5. A sharp point.
6. The share of a plough.

Translations

Verb

tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)

1. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
2. To gore with the tusks.
3. (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.

Related terms

• tusked
• tusker
• tusklike
• tusky
• tusk tenon

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “tusk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tusk (plural tusks)

1. A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).

Ludian

Etymology

Related to Finnish tuska. Ultimately from Russian ?????? (toská, “melancholy”).

Noun

tusk

1. pain

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tux, tuxe, tosk, tuske, twuxe

Etymology

From Old English t?x, from earlier t?sc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Compare tusshe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tusk/, /tuks/

Noun

tusk (plural tuskes)

1. A tusk (protruding long tooth)
2. Any long and sharp tooth.
3. (rare) The end of a spear.

Derived terms

• tusky
• tuskyd

Descendants

• English: tusk
• Scots: tusk

References

• “tusk, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• tosk

Etymology

Cognate with Old English t?sc.

Noun

tusk m

1. tooth

Inflection

Descendants

• West Frisian: tosk

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish tuska. Ultimately from Russian ?????? (toská, “melancholy”).

Noun

tusk

1. boredom

English

Alternative forms

• tisk (typically as onomatopoeia)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• commonly pronounced as IPA^(key): /?t?sk/, properly and originally as a voiceless dental click IPA^(key): [?]

Interjection

tsk

1. An exclamation of disapproval, disappointment or discontent.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:tut tut

Verb

tsk (third-person singular simple present tsks, present participle tsking, simple past and past participle tsked)

1. (intransitive) To make a tsk sound of disapproval.

Anagrams

• Skt., kts, tks

Danish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Interjection

tsk

1. tsk

Etymology 2

From teske.

Noun

tsk

1. Alternative form of tsk.