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buxom

adj
/ˈbʌksəm/

Etymology

From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some. Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).

  1. inherited from *beuhsam✻
  2. inherited from bōcsum
  3. inherited from buxom

Definitions

  1. Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.

    • Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.
    • DIED. Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of Hooters, turned the bar-restaurant chain, famed for buxom waitresses in orange hot pants, into an international success.

  2. Full of health, vigour, and good temper.

    • There on Beds of Violets blew, / And freſh-blown Roſes waſht in dew, / Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, / So buckſom, blith, and debonair.
    • Claypole, the buxom novelist,...[his] bubbling utterances....

  3. Physically flexible or unresisting.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Morally pliant

      Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.

      • They downe him hold, and fast with cords do bynde, / Till they him force the buxome yoke to beare […].

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