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bosky

adj
/ˈbɒski/UK

Etymology

From bosk + -y.

  1. derived from *bʰuH-✻ — “to become, grow, appear”
  2. derived from *buskaz✻ — “bush, thicket”
  3. derived from *busk✻
  4. derived from busca
  5. derived from bosca — “firewood”
  6. inherited from *busc✻
  7. inherited from bosk
  8. suffixed as bosky — “bosk + y”

Definitions

  1. Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.

    • And the fields; they must have been a little more trackless and irregular, more bosky and tumbled, retaining a little more hill and dale, an irregularity which generation after generation of ploughing has nearly counteracted ; […].
    • The Harvard Yard is also darkened and made to seem far more bosky and umbrageous than it was.

  2. Caused by trees or shrubs.

    • It was open, and they looked down the road which was darkened over with long bosky shadows.

  3. Bushy, bristling.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Drunk

      Drunk; inebriated.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA