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单词 busky
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buskyadj.

Forms: 1500s buskye, 1600s buskey, 1500s–1600s buskie, 1600s–1800s busky.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English busk , bush n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < busk, variant of bush n.1 + -y suffix1. Compare earlier bushy adj. and later bosky adj.1
Obsolete.
Consisting of or covered with bushes; full of thickets; bushy.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > relating to copse, thicket, or undergrowth
busky1570
thicketed?1624
thickety1640
copsy1757
copsed1782
underwooded1811
coppiced1832
shawy1848
copsewooded1862
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiiiv/2 Buskye, dumosus.
1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. C4v And sometimes nibble on the buskie root.
1606 J. Reynolds Dolarnys Primerose sig. C2 Huge Tmolus..with buskey haire.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 (1623) v. i. 2 The Sunne begins to peere Aboue yon busky [1598 bulky] hill.
1736 R. Erskine Paraphr. Song of Solomon 117 Black as a Rav'n's his curled Hair And busky Locks.
1794 A. Thomas Newfoundland Jrnl. (1968) 10 When these prickly bushes came to maturity their busky heads would give the Redoubt the appearance of a large Bramble.
1846 Times 22 Oct. 3/6 Wednesday, the men on foot scoured again more of the busky ravines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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