Busk vs Bosk - What's the difference?
busk | bosk |
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
* Marston
(by extension) A corset.
* 1661 , John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":
(obsolete) A kind of linen.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 557:
To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
*
To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]
To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport
(nautical) To tack, to cruise about.
A thicket; a small wood.
* Sir Walter Scott
As nouns the difference between busk and bosk
is that busk is a strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it while bosk is a thicket; a small wood.As a verb busk
is to prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.busk
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) busc, by dissimilation from buste from (etyl) busto.Noun
(en noun)- Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk , puff verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelical.
- Off with that happy busk , which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
Etymology 2
EtymologyNoun
(en noun)- Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) busken, from (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. — Hamilton.
- The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright
- And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight. — Fairfax.
- Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. — Skelton.
Etymology 4
Apparently from (etyl) busquer or (etyl) buscar.Verb
(en verb)References
* ----bosk
English
Noun
(en noun)- Through bosk and dell.
