bux·om (b k s m)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 *b  hsum, from bgan, to bend, submit; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]bux om·ly adv.bux om·ness n. |
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| Noun | 1. | buxomness - the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed |
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