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bosky

  • /ˈbɒski/ UK

adjective boskier · boskiest

  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 ; […].

    Similar: lush, verdant, bosky, greenly, lavish, verdured, verdurous, virid, viridescent

  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. They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
  4. obsolete, slang Drunk; inebriated.

    Similar: lushed, potted, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored

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adj having abundant bushes or trees

Españolboscoso
Italianoboscoso, cespuglioso
Русскийпоро́сший ле́сом porósšij lésom, поро́сший куста́рником porósšij kustárnikom

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@misc{bosky_2026,
  title = {bosky},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bosky},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}