About The Word Buxom
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Buxom Definition And Meaning |
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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 See Also | 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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