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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

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Etymology

Origin of bosky

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

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Most Saturday mornings, I stroll half a mile downhill from my tiny apartment in a bosky part of San Francisco to a farmers market.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

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

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

Bonchurch is perhaps a mile from Ventnor, and is the boskiest bit of loveliness in all the lovely island.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

I asked, as we sped into Central's boskiest dell.

From Options by Henry, O.

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