bosky

Adjective

bosky (comparative boskier, superlative boskiest)

1. 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
   • A long olive-grove secretes the garden from the sea. When you walk in the garden, you know the sea only in blue glimpses through the vacillating leaves. White-gleaming from the bosky shade of this grove are several goddesses.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   lush, verdant, greenly, lavish, verdured, verdurous, virid, viridescent

2. 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
3. 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
4. (obsolete, slang) Drunk; inebriated.

   Synonyms:

   lushed, potted, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken