Husky vs. Wolf — What's the Difference?

A husky is a sled dog used in the polar regions. One can differentiate huskies from other dog types by their fast pulling-style.

The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and gray wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise non-domestic/feral subspecies.

Hoarse or rough in quality

Any of several carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, especially the gray wolf of northern regions, that typically live and hunt in packs.

Resembling a husk.

The fur of such an animal.

Containing husks.

Any of various similar or related mammals, such as the hyena.

Strongly built; burly.

The destructive larva of any of various moths, beetles, or flies.

Heavily built

One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce.

A husky person.

(Slang)A man who habitually makes aggressive sexual advances to women.

A dog of any of various compact, thick-coated Arctic breeds developed as sled dogs, especially the Siberian husky.

A harshness in some tones of a bowed stringed instrument produced by defective vibration.

(of a voice) Hoarse and rough-sounding.

Dissonance in perfect fifths on a keyboard instrument tuned to a system of unequal temperament.

Burly, stout.

To eat greedily or voraciously:"The town's big shots were ... wolfing down the buffet"(Ralph Ellison).

Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs.

Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.

Abounding with husks; consisting of husks.

A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.

(music) A wolf tone or wolf note.

Powerful; strong; burly.

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

An Eskimo.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

The Eskimo language.

A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.

An Eskimo dog, especially a breed of strong heavy-coated dogs used to pull dogsleds in the Northern regions of North America.

A wolf spider.

Breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

Muscular and heavily built;

A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.

Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion;

(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

(intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

A willying machine.

Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

A cruelly rapacious person

Eat hastily;