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buxom Definition

buxom (buk′səm)

adjective

  1. Obsolete
    1. obedient
    2. flexible; pliant
  2. Archaic healthy, comely, plump, jolly, etc.
  3. having a shapely, full-bosomed figure: said of a woman or girl

Etymology: ME, humble, obedient < base of bouen, bow + -som, -some

buxom Related Forms
bux′·omly adverb bux′·om·ness noun
buxom Synonyms

buxom

modif.

  1. Hearty

    plump, robust, vigorous; see healthy 1, fat 1.

  2. Large-breasted

    shapely, curvaceous, voluptuous, full-bosomed, bosomy, well-built, well-proportioned, comely, stacked*, built*, busty*, chesty*.

buxom Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • wench: With the passage of time and ale, the men grew friendlier and the buxom wenches lovelier - and tongues grew looser.
  • lady: A buxom lady came to the door to ask who I was looking for and I said " It's OK.
  • beauty: The barmaids were all delightful from the blushing maidens to the buxom beauties.
  • girl: Now cold water turned him into a buxom redheaded girl, while hot returned him to his original, male form.
  • woman: Replicas of the well-known buxom women painted by Rubens hang on the walls.
  • lass: It was here in the days long past lived a comely buxom lass who was employed a the dairy maid.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: Hobbit women have to be very buxom and sexual.
buxom Quotes

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

—Spenser, Edmund