Buxom Definition

bŭksəm
adjective
buxomer, buxomest
Flexible; pliant.
Webster's New World
Healthy, comely, plump, jolly, etc.
Webster's New World
Full-bosomed.
American Heritage
Obedient.
Webster's New World
Lively; vivacious.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Buxom

Adjective

Base Form:
buxom
Comparative:
buxomer
Superlative:
buxomest

Origin of Buxom

  • From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English *būhsum (“bendsome, pliant”), a derivative of Old English būgan (“to bend, bow”), equivalent to bow +‎ -some. Cognate with Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English obedient from Old English būhsum from būgan to bend, submit bheug- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Buxom Sentence Examples

  • Her weight fluctuated over the years and rumor has it she got as low as a size eight, but her size 16, curvy, buxom period coincided with the time of her greatest fame.

  • Small Talk fancies a night of late-night revelry in our fair capital, preferably with a bevy of buxom beauties.

  • In 1978 she gained film stardom in Derek Jarman's fantasy punk noir ' Jubilee ' singing a buxom ' Rule Britannia ' .

  • With the passage of time and ale, the men grew friendlier and the buxom wenches lovelier - and tongues grew looser.

  • There seems moreover to have been a sort of rivalry between mother and daughter for the chief place in Necker's affections, and it is not probable that the daughter's love for her mother was increased by the consciousness of her own inferiority in personal charms. Mme Necker was of a most refined though somewhat lackadaisical style of beauty, while her daughter was a plain child and a plainer woman, whose sole attractions were large and striking eyes and a buxom.

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