bosky

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There's a bosky isolato about the line as if amidst the thrill of a broken heart one could be wildly alone simply by choice.

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  1. adjective Having an abundance of bushes, shrubs, or trees: "a bosky park leading to a modest yet majestic plaza” (Jack Beatty).
  2. adjective Of or relating to woods.

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  • The primary meaning of bosky is "bushy" or "wooded"—the Middle English word bosk came from the same root that gave us bush . —  The Word Detective
  • He was perhaps a trifle bosky, but he prided himself on being a man who could hold his liquor. —  EQMM,January2007
  • There's a bosky isolato about the line as if amidst the thrill of a broken heart one could be wildly alone simply by choice. —  Planet of the Blind
  • The bays, the water-mouths, the rocks, the bosky isles--he clothed them with delights, and made them float in the haze wherein a boy untravelled would envelop them There's a story I know." —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
  • Beyond these are blue undulations of varying tone, and then another bosky-looking spot, which you learn to be about the same amount of manorial umbrage belonging to Lord Some-One-Else. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118
 

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  1. From Middle English bosk, bush, from Medieval Latin bosca, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from bosk + -y. Cf. busky, bushy.
 

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/ˈbɑski/
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