boskiest
boskiest is the superlative form of bosky.
Meaning of bosky
Adjective
bosky (comparative boskier, superlative boskiest)
- Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.
- And the fields; they must have been a little more trackless and irregular, more bosky and tumbled, retaining a little more hill and dale, an irregularity which generation after generation of ploughing has nearly counteracted ; […].1886, David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 54, page 24
- Caused by trees or shrubs.
- It was open, and they looked down the road which was darkened over with long bosky shadows.1878, Henry James, The Europeans
- Bushy, bristling.
- They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 5”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
- Drunk; inebriated.
Questions about boskiest
- What is boskiest the superlative form of?
- Boskiest is the superlative form of bosky.
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