This week’s theme
Five-letter words

This week’s words
eclat
bosky
fubsy
gleed
sapid

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(BAH-skee)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Densely wooded; covered in trees and shrubs.
2. Pertaining to forests or wooded areas.

ETYMOLOGY:

From bosk (bush), from Latin bosca. Earliest documented use: 1616.

USAGE:

“The coastal trainline passed a seashore in places ... as lush and bosky as the Great Bear Rainforest.”
J.R. Patterson; Easy Beauty and the Bosom of Friendship Is What You Get from Wexford; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Oct 12, 2022.

See more usage examples of bosky in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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