bosky
/ˈbɒski/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 ; […]."
- "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."
- "Even in 1869 it had had more than half a century of development, and to judge from photographs must already have been a place of charm. Indeed, it seems to have had at that time more and finer trees than now, and to have been more bosky with scattered copses and masses of shrubbery."
- "The Harvard Yard is also darkened and made to seem far more bosky and umbrageous than it was."
- "We rambled around wet fields and bosky paths that smelled of jasmine."
- "It was open, and they looked down the road which was darkened over with long bosky shadows."
Etymology
From bosk + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈbɒski/