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单词 subbosco
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subboscon.

Forms: 1500s subbosco, 1600s subosco.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Italian, combined with an English element; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: sub- prefix, Italian bosco.
Etymology: Apparently < sub- prefix + Italian bosco wood (see bush n.1), perhaps humorously after either Law French subbois or post-classical Latin subboscus (see subbois n.). Compare Italian sottobosco underwood (although this is first attested only in the 19th cent.). Compare suberch n.
humorous. Obsolete.
In plural. Hair growing on the lower part of the face.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun]
bristlea1300
subboscos1579
suberch1592
stubblea1596
whiskerc1600
facial hair1830
face fungus1904
zit1912
five o'clock shadow1937
shrubbery1937
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 61 The clippings of your thrishonorable mustachyoes and subboscoes.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. iii. 42 The boscos, and suboscos (I mean,) the dulapes and the jawy part of the face.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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