To answer the question ---> If a man is described as husky what do we mean about him? What is the origin of the expression?
- A man called husky is being compared to a dog, specifically, a Siberian Husky. Harriet Beecher Stowe first used the word with that intent in a story published in 1869.
The question and answer were found in the book A New Dictionary of Eponyms by Morton S. Freeman. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1997. I opened to p. 127 and read the article that began there and continued on to page 128.
By the way an eponym is a word derived from a proper name.
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