bosk

English

Etymology

From Middle English bosk, likely from Anglo-Latin bosca (“firewood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (cf. Old High German busk) or Old English busc (attested only in place names). Cognate with Italian bosco, Spanish and Portuguese bosque, French bois, Dalmatian buasc, and Occitan boscs.

Noun

bosk (plural bosks)

  1. A thicket; a small wood.
    • Sir Walter Scott
      Through bosk and dell
    • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
      blowing bosks of wilderness

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bosk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Albanian

Noun

bosk m

  1. hornless goat
Synonyms

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bosk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Cognate with English bush, Dutch bos, German Busch, Danish busk.

Noun

bosk n (plural bosken)

  1. forest

Noun

bosk c (plural bosken)

  1. bundle
  2. bush, thicket
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