imbosk

English

Etymology

From in- (“in”) +‎ bosk (“thicket, small wood”).

Verb

imbosk (third-person singular simple present imbosks, present participle imbosking, simple past and past participle imbosked)

1. (obsolete) To hide or conceal oneself
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, 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

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “imbosk”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• kombis