Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 7, 2011
boscage \BOS-kij\, noun:
A mass of trees or shrubs.
So once the B.O. on this side saw the video from the alternate parallel universe , he immediately ordered NASA to give him access to the other side for one hour. While the Secret Service agents reluctantly balked at allowing him to cross over, his continued insistence and whining and threat of losing their jobs finally convinced them to let him go. So the B.O. says, "I'm going over to the other side, to the dark side, and convince that conservative miscreant of an impostor B.O. that he is dead wrong in what he is doing. I may even have to dust him up a bit, but he'll get the message." So an hour goes by and finally the B.O. steps back through the portal, all beaten up and disheveled. "What in the other world happened?" the still employed Secret Service agent asked. "Well," retorted the B.O., "I got over there and hid behind a boscage that was conveniently located adjacent to the weald that he was walking in. When I jumped out from my hiding spot, I must have scared him as he was not expecting someone to confront him, especially another B.O., so he fainted straightaway and then his body guards beat me up thinking that I was trying to harm him. It was all very confusing and happened so fast, and then all of a sudden I came back to this universe. What a relief to be back; we need to close that portal so no one can cross over again and see what is happening over there. That kind of change is too scary for me!"
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
In places the park and the site itself were edged right up to its rubble and boscage by the rear of buildings...-- China Miéville, The City & the City
Plunging along a narrow path thick-set on each side with leafy boscage, Paul caught sight of the two retreating figures a few yards only in front of him.-- John R. Carling, The Shadow of the Czar
Boscage comes from the Middle French word boscage, from the roots bosk meaning “a small wood or thicket” and -age, a suffix that denotes a general noun, like voyage and courage.
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