Buxom \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.]
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So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be,
And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. --Spenser.
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I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to
be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.
--Foxe.
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2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and
comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and
rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
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A daughter fair,
So buxom, blithe, and debonair. --Milton.
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A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing,
singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.
--Tatler.
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3. having a pronounced womanly shape. [chiefly dialect]
Syn: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy,
voluptuous.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
buxom
adj 1: (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" [syn: bosomy,
busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie,
sonsy, voluptuous, well-endowed]
2: euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom
actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies";
"pleasingly plump" [syn: chubby, embonpoint, plump,
zaftig, zoftig]
WordNet (r) 2.0
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "buxom":
Junoesque, 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, laughter-loving, likely, lovely to behold, lusty, meaty,
merry, mirth-loving, mirthful, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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