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bosky

American  
[bos-kee] / ˈbɒs ki /

adjective

boskier, boskiest
  1. covered with bushes, shrubs, and small trees; woody.

  2. shady.


bosky British  
/ ˈbɒskɪ /

adjective

  1. literary containing or consisting of bushes or thickets

    a bosky wood

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • boskiness noun

Etymology

Origin of bosky

First recorded in 1585–95; bosk + -y 1

Example Sentences

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We’re with the author, banging down bosky mental paths.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2020

We rambled around wet fields and bosky paths that smelled of jasmine.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2018

Families emerged from bosky banks, baseball fields behind.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2018

In 2004, Coudreaut arrived at McDonald's headquarters, a sprawling, bosky campus in Oak Brook, Ill., outside Chicago.

From Time • Feb. 17, 2010

A big white swan full of little children approached my bench, then turned around a bosky islet covered with ducks and paddled back under the dark arch of the bridge.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath