dusky
/ˈdʌs.ki/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.83 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Ashen; having a greyish skin coloration.
noun
A dusky shark.
noun
noun
A dusky grouse.
Example Sentences
- "I like it when it is dusky, just before the street lights come on."
- "A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky."
- "The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors."
- "You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff."
- "I think that he was a little horrified at my cool way of taking the honour, but the fact was that I did not feel overwhelmed with gratitude at the prospect of seeing some savage, dusky queen, however absolute and mysterious she might be, more especially as my mind was full of dear Leo, for whose life I began to have great fears."
- "They "stuck on" fairly well, but sometimes these dusky jockeys fell off during the race."
Etymology
Etymology tree English dusk Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English dusky From dusk + -y.