Bosky
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbɒski/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Bosky is an adjective meaning Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.
Meaning
Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.
More Meanings
- Caused by trees or shrubs.
- Bushy, bristling.
- (obsolete, slang) Drunk; inebriated.
Example Sentences
We rambled around wet fields and bosky paths that smelled of jasmine.
It was open, and they looked down the road which was darkened over with long bosky shadows.
The Harvard Yard is also darkened and made to seem far more bosky and umbrageous than it was.
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 ; […].
Word Forms
- boskier
- boskiest
Synonyms for bosky
Depending on context, synonyms include lush, verdant, greenly, lavish, verdured, verdurous.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wooded, brushy, dell, bourn, dells, busky.
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