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Definition: Bosky |
BoskyAdjective1. Covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets; "brushy undergrowth"; "`bosky' is a literary term"; "a bosky park leading to a modest yet majestic plaza"- Jack Beatty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bosky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
Note: Bosky \Bosk"y\, adjective. [Compare to Bushy.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Bosky On the verge of drunkenness. University slang, from bosko, to pasture, to feed. Everyone will remember how Sir John Falstaff made sack his meat and drink. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BoskySynonym: brushy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bosky |
| English words defined with "bosky": Boskiness, brushy, Busky. (references) |
| "Bosky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bosky" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bosky | 3 |
bosky ivan | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bosky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bokros (bushy), részeg (be in liquor, blind, blind drunk, boiled, drunk, frog's march, fuddled, have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, laced, lit-up, loaded, lush, lushy, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, tanked, tiddly, tipsy, to be blitzed out, to be bust, to be busted, to be hot, to be phazed, to be up the pole, to be way-out, to be zipped, to be zonked out, woozy), ittas (boiled, drunken, groggy, in one's cups, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, tipsy, vinous), cserjés (Bosk, Bush, bushy, coppice, scrogs, scrub, scrubland, shrubbery, spinney, thicket, tuft), árnyas (adumbral, bowery, shady, umbrageous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | boscoso (wooded, Woody). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oskybay sombreado (ombré, shaded), embriagado (drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, lushness, Pickles, plastered, tipsy), com bosques, arborizado (Forester, green, timbered, wooded, Woody). (various references) aghesmuit (boozy, fuddled, tipsy), împãdurit (wooded). (various references) поросший лесом/кустарником. (various references) зарослий лісом. (various references) rậm rạp (brushy, rank), nhiều cây. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Bosky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baksay, beky, bikky, Biky, bisky, Blonsky, Bocskay, bokey, boki, Bolsay, bonky, booky, boosky, Bosc, bosce, bosch, Boscq, Bosk, bosks, Boyks, brodski, bucky, butky, Kowski, Lossky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-k-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: bosk, boys, kobs, sybo, yobs, yoks. | |
-2 letters: bos, boy, bys, kob, kos, sky, sob, soy, yob, yok. | |
-3 letters: bo, by, os, oy, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-k-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: kybosh, skybox. | |
+2 letters: byworks. | |
+3 letters: boychiks, busywork, daybooks, kyboshed, kyboshes, linkboys, skyborne, skyboxes. | |
+4 letters: blackboys, bodyworks, bookishly, boychicks, buckayros, busyworks, copybooks, hymnbooks, keyboards, kilobytes, kyboshing, playbooks, rockabyes, storybook, stylebook, yearbooks. | |
+5 letters: backwoodsy, billycocks, bodychecks, keybuttons, storybooks, stylebooks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6F 73 6B 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... --- ... -.- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101111 01110011 01101011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B o s k y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006F 0073 006B 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3681857791 |
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