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bucksome

adj

Etymology

From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.

  1. inherited from buxum

Definitions

  1. Archaic form of buxom.

  2. Marked by bucking or bucking up

    Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.

    • Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death.

  3. Spirited or lively, like a buck.

    • "Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA