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单词 bosky
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boskyadj.1

Brit. /ˈbɒski/, U.S. /ˈbɑski/
Etymology: < bosk n. (not recorded between 14th and 19th centuries, but preserved in dialect) + -y suffix1; or alteration of busky adj., after Italian boscoso.
Consisting of or covered with bushes or underwood; full of thickets, bushy. (Also transferred.)
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of
bushya1382
ramagea1500
boskya1616
brakya1637
brushy1658
brushed1666
scrubbya1687
pine barrenc1721
bush-grown1837
stumpy1838
bush-skirted1858
bushed1868
bush-covered1873
bush-fringed1891
bush-clad1909
primary forest1909
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 81 My boskie acres, and my vnshrubd downe. View more context for this quotation
1637 J. Milton Comus 11 And every boskie bourne.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece ii. 65 The bosky bourns of Alfred's shires.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 116 The bosky thickets.
1851 H. Melville v. 33 A brown and brawny company with bosky beards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

boskyadj.2

Brit. /ˈbɒski/, U.S. /ˈbɑski/
Etymology: perhaps a humorous use of bosky adj.1, with the notion of ‘overshadowed’ or ‘obscured’.
dialect or slang.
Somewhat the worse for drink, tipsy.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk
merrya1382
semi-bousyc1460
pipe merry1542
totty1570
tipsy1577
martin-drunk1592
pleasant1596
mellow1611
tip-merry1612
flustered1615
lusticka1616
well to live1619
jolly1652
happy1662
hazy1673
top-heavy1687
hearty1695
half-seas-over1699
oiled1701
mellowish1703
half channelled over1709
drunkish1710
half-and-half1718
touched1722
uppisha1726
tosie1727
bosky1730
funny1751
fairish1756
cherry-merry1769
in suds1770
muddy1776
glorious1790
groggified1796
well-corned1800
fresh1804
to be mops and brooms1814
foggy1816
how-come-ye-so1816
screwy1820
off the nail1821
on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821
swipey1821
muggy1822
rosy1823
snuffy1823
spreeish1825
elevated1827
up a stump1829
half-cockedc1830
tightish1830
tipsified1830
half shaved1834
screwed1837
half-shot1838
squizzed1845
drinky1846
a sheet in the wind1862
tight1868
toppy1885
tiddly1905
oiled-up1918
bonkers1943
sloshed1946
tiddled1956
hickey-
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Bosky, half or quite fuddled.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 573 He may be tipsy, bosky, cut, or anything but drunk.
1843 T. Hook in New Monthly Mag. 60 11 Became, to use a colloquial expression, uncommonly bosky.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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