bosky

adjective · 16th century

It manages to sound suspiciously like a forest, fitting for a head full of thick fog.

Formerly used in dialect to describe someone who is tipsy or suffering the dizzying effects of drink.

In the wild

“Having stayed out far too late, he awoke feeling remarkably bosky.”

Origin

Derived from the French bosq, though its secondary meaning relating to drunkenness is a distinct English shift.