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buxom

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bux·om  (bksm)
adj.
1.
a. Healthily plump and ample of figure: "A generation ago, fat babies were considered healthy and buxom actresses were popular, but society has since come to worship thinness" (Robert A. Hamilton).
b. Full-bosomed.
2. Archaic Lively, vivacious, and gay.
3. Obsolete Obedient; yielding; pliant.

[Middle English, obedient, from Old English *bhsum, from bgan, to bend, submit; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]

buxom·ly adv.
buxom·ness n.

buxom [ˈbʌksəm]
adj
1. (esp of a woman) healthily plump, attractive, and vigorous
2. (of a woman) full-bosomed
[buhsum compliant, pliant, from Old English būgan to bend, bow1; related to Middle Dutch būchsam pliant, German biegsam]
buxomly  adv
buxomness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.buxom - (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"
shapely - having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; "a slim waist and shapely legs"
2.buxombuxom - (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton;
fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"

buxom
Translations
buxom [ˈbʌksəm] ADJcon mucho pecho

buxom [ˈbʌksəm] adj [woman] → plantureux/euse

buxom
adjdrall

buxom [ˈbʌksəm] adjformoso/a
buxom [ˈbʌksəm] adjformoso/a

buxom
adj buxom [ˈbaksəm]
(of a woman) plump and usually attractive a buxom blonde. rondborstige مُمْتَلِئه وَجَذّابَه приятно закръглена kyprý fyldig; buttet drall αφράτος, στρουμπουλός (για γυναίκα) metida en carnes lopsakas زن خوش سر و سینه uhkea plantureux מְלֵאָה וּבְרִיאָה मोटा-ताजा jedar teltkarcsú montok bústinn formoso 豊満な 가슴이 풍만하고 매력적인 apkūni, putli (par sievieti) ražens; []mīlīgs montok mollig frodig, yppig hoża rechonchudo atră­gător; planturos пышная kyprý, bacuľatý bujen prsata žena frodig, mullig, fyllig อ้วนท้วน iri göğüslü (kadın) 體態豐滿的 кров з молоком, кругленька خوش طبع ، گداز ، رسیلا đẫy đà


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The poor girl had gone scarlet, scarlet as the petticoat which I was sure WAS hers, with probably a fellow at the moment keeping warm her buxom figure.
945-946) And Hephaestus, the famous Lame One, made Aglaea, youngest of the Graces, his buxom wife.
Their eyes grew clear and bright; a dark shade deepened among their silvery locks, they sat around the table, three gentlemen of middle age, and a woman, hardly beyond her buxom prime.
 
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