different between tusk vs tusker

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

Etymology 1

From tusk +? -er.

Noun

tusker (plural tuskers)

1. An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
   • 1928 June, Fred Graves, Houdini of the Desert: Face to Face with Savage Elephants, Popular Science, page 19,

     The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse torfskeri, from torf (“turf”) + skera (“to cut”), whence also Scottish Gaelic tairsgear, toirsgear and later forms like toirsgein (assimilated to sgian (“knife”)). Known in print from the early 19th century, but doubtless much older.

Alternative forms

• tuskar, toysker, tushkar, tushker, twiscar

Noun

tusker (plural tuskers)

1. (Britain, especially Scotland, Orkney, Shetland) A tool used in peat cutting, a type of spade similar to a cascrom.

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Tuskar”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 1 (Ti–U), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 512, column 3.
• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[2], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 276

Anagrams

• Kuster, Turkes