dial. or slang. [perh. a humorous use of prec., with the notion of ‘overshadowed’ or ‘obscured.’] Somewhat the worse for drink, tipsy.
1730–6. Bailey, Bosky, half or quite fuddled.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XVI. 573. He may be tipsy, bosky, cut, or anything but drunk.
1840. Th. Hook, in New Monthly Mag., LX. 11. Became, to use a colloquial expression, uncommonly bosky.
