Buxom

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] -- {Bux"om*ly}, adv. --
          {Bux"om*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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