husk

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
2. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
3. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

Verb

To remove husks from.

Verb

1. To cough, clear one's throat.
2. To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

Synonyms

shell

🐚

peel

hull

skin

chaff

bark

shuck

pod

rind

crust

bran

straw

casing

stalk

fodder

stubble

slough

cornhusk

pare

cover

testa

crush

investment

fish

🐟

coconut husk

scale

grind

skim

membrane

paring

peeling

peel off

pericarp

pot

pound

💷

rubbish

scour

shave

sheath

strip

strip off

test

valve

pallium

rice bran

skim off

untanned pelt

decorticatie

episperm

vegetables

supporting framework

paddy husk

smallest grain

rice husk

hud

crust tyre

tikitiki

bran and middlings

peel-back

dried cornstalk

aril

waste fibre

bema

case

chip off

choir

cod

cortex

culm

decorticate

dress

👗

eggshell

encrustation

envelope

✉️

exfoliate

exuviate

fibers

flake

haulm

hide

husking

incrustation

integument

jacket

leach

leather

legume

mantle

masturbate

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/hʌsk/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: huske

Inherited from Old English:

Cognate with Nederlands: huisje

Cognate with Duits: Häuschen

In summary

From Middle English huske (“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, *hausaz (“covering, shell, leggings”), from Proto-Indo-European *kawəs- / kawes- (“cover”). If so, equivalent to hose + -ock.
Alternatively from Middle Low German hūske(n) (“little house, sheath”), Middle Dutch hūskijn (“little house, core of fruit, case”), diminutive of hūs (“house”). Compare Dutch huisje, German Häuschen, both also used for “snailshell”.