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Buxom

Buxom Meaning & Definition
Buxom Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Buxom?

[adj] euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"
[adj] (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Buxom: bosomy | busty | chubby | curvaceous | curvy | embonpoint | fat | full-bosomed | plump | shapely | sonsie | sonsy | voluptuous | well-endowed | zaftig | zoftig

Related Terms | Find terms related to Buxom: adipose | agreeable | amply endowed | attractive | becoming | beefy | big-bellied | bloated | blowzy | bonny | bosomy | braw | brawny | built | built for comfort | burly | busty | callipygian | callipygous | chesty | chubby | chunky | comely | corpulent | curvaceous | curvy | distended | dumpy | fair | fat | fattish | fleshy | frivolous | full | gleeful | goddess-like | gross | healthy | hearty | heavyset | hefty | hilarious | hippy | imposing | jocular | jocund | jolly | jovial | joyful | joyous | Junoesque | laughter-loving | likely | lovely to behold | lusty | meaty | merry | mirthful | mirth-loving | obese | overweight | paunchy | personable | pleasing | plump | pneumatic | podgy | portly | potbellied | presentable | pudgy | puffy | pursy | rejoicing | risible | roly-poly | rotund | shapely | sightly | slender | square | squat | squatty | stacked | stalwart | statuesque | stocky | stout | strapping | swollen | thick-bodied | thickset | top-heavy | tubby | vigorous | well-built | well-developed | well-favored | well-fed | well-formed | well-made | well-proportioned | well-shaped | well-stacked

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Buxom In Webster's Dictionary

\Bux"om\, a. [OE. buxum, boxom, buhsum, pliable, obedient, AS. b[=o]csum, b[=u]hsum (akin to D. buigzaam blexible, G. biegsam); b[=u]gan to bow, bend + -sum, E. -some. See {Bow} to bend, and {-some}.] 1. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.] So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. --Spenser. I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it. --Foxe. 2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. --Milton. A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. --Tatler. -- {Bux"om*ly}, adv. -- {Bux"om*ness}, n.

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