bosk
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bosk
- /bɒsk/ UK
- /bɑsk/ US
Rhymes with -ɒsk, -ɑsk
Where it comes from
From Middle English bosk, busk, variants of bush (“grove, wood; thicket, underbrush; bush; branch of a shrub or tree”), from Old English *busc (attested only in place names), likely from Anglo-Latin bosca (“firewood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus, boscus (“wood; woodland”), from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, appear”).
The English word is cognate with Dalmatian buasc (“forest; wood”), French bois (“wood (material); wood, woodland”), Italian bosco (“wood (wooded area)”), Sicilian voscu (“wood”), Middle Dutch bosch, busch (modern Dutch bos (“forest; wood”)), Norwegian busk (“bush, shrub”); Occitan boscs, Old High German busk (“bush”) (Middle High German busch, bosch, modern German Busch (“bush, shrub; brush, scrub”)), Portuguese bosque (“grove”), Spanish bosque (“forest”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”).
Doublet of bush.
Alternatively, the modern word may be a back-formation from bosky (“having abundant bushes, shrubs, or trees”).
Talk about this word "bosk." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bosk. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bosk. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bosk "bosk." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bosk.Cite this
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