Definition of buxom Buxom

/bʌˈksʌm/ - [buksum] - bux•om

We found 9 definitions of buxom from 5 different sources.

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What does buxom mean?

WordNet

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Adjective

buxom, buxommer, buxommest

buxom - (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton;
  zaftig, zoftig
  fat having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
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"
  bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed
  shapely having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; "a slim waist and shapely legs"
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • buxom (a.)
    Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
  • buxom (a.)
    Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • buxom
    buks′um, adj. yielding, elastic: gay, lively, jolly.—n. Bux′omness, the quality of being buxom: liveliness: gaiety. [M. E. buhsum, pliable, obedient—A.S. búgan, to bow, yield, and affix Some.]

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  • buxom, adjective.

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