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Bosky

//ˈbɒski// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 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 ; […]."

  2. 2
    Caused by trees or shrubs.

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

  3. 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. 4
    Drunk; inebriated. obsolete, slang
Adjective
  1. 1
    covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets wordnet

Etymology

From bosk + -y.

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