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单词 bosky
释义 I. bosky, a.1|ˈbɒskɪ|
[f. bosk (not recorded between 14th and 19th c., but preserved in dial.) + -y; or alteration of busky, after It. boscoso.]
Consisting of or covered with bushes or underwood; full of thickets, bushy. (Also transf.)
1593Peele Chron. Edw. I (1874) 407 In this bosky wood Bury his corpse.1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 81 My boskie acres, and my vnshrubd downe.1634Milton Comus 312 And every bosky bourn.1757Dyer Fleece (1807) 79 The bosky bourns of Alfred's shires.1810Scott Lady of L. iii. xiv, The bosky thickets.1851H. Melville v. 33 A brown and brawny company with bosky beards.
II. bosky, a.2 dial. or slang.|ˈbɒskɪ|
[perh. a humorous use of prec., with the notion of ‘overshadowed’ or ‘obscured’.]
Somewhat the worse for drink, tipsy.
1730–6Bailey, Bosky, half or quite fuddled.1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 573 He may be tipsy, bosky, cut, or anything but drunk.1843T. Hook in New Month. Mag. LX. 11 Became, to use a colloquial expression, uncommonly bosky.
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