Bossiest vs Boskiest - What's the difference?
bossiest | boskiest |
(bossy)
Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
(US, informal, dated) A cow or calf.
* about 1900 , O. Henry,
(bosky)
Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.
* 1886 , David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, Macmillan's Magazine , Volume 54,
* 1930 , Samuel Eliot Morison, The Development of Harvard University Since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929 ,
* c.1936 , , in 2003, William G. Holzberger (editor), The Letters of George Santayana, Book Five, 1933-1936 ,
Caused by trees or shrubs.
* (Henry James)
Bushy, bristling.
*1851 ,
*: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.
As adjectives the difference between bossiest and boskiest
is that bossiest is superlative of bossy while boskiest is superlative of bosky.bossiest
English
Adjective
(head)bossy
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* dictatorial, authoritarian, commanding, tyrannical, demanding, inflexible * see alsoEtymology 2
Diminutive of dialectal English boss, as used in the term ).Noun
(bossies)- A week before, while riding the prairies, Raidler had come upon a sick and weakling calf deserted and bawling. Without dismounting he had reached and slung the distressed bossy across his saddle, and dropped it at the ranch for the boys to attend to.
Etymology 3
boskiest
English
Adjective
(head)bosky
English
Adjective
(er)page 24,
- 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 ; .
page 345,
- 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.
page 425,
- The Harvard Yard is also darkened and made to seem far more bosky and umbrageous than it was.
- Darkened over by long bosky shadows.
