imbosk
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From in- (“in”) + bosk (“thicket, small wood”).
Verb[edit]
imbosk (third-person singular simple present imbosks, present participle imbosking, simple past and past participle imbosked)
- (obsolete) To hide or conceal oneself
- 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
- I turned to imbosk myself
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “imbosk”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.