tusky

adj

Etymology: From Middle English tusky, equivalent to tusk + -y.

1. Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.

   “Ho! Strangers! have you lately ſeen, ſhe ſaid, / One of my Siſters, like my ſelf array’d; […] Vary’d with Spots, a Linx’s Hide ſhe wore: / And at full Cry purſu’d the tusky Boar?”

noun

1. rhubarb, sticks from that vegetable

   “[…] mi little stick of Leeds grown tusky draws galas of rhubarb from the MET-set palms.”