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buxomness
bux·om B0587000 (bŭk′səm)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.3. Obsolete Obedient; yielding; pliant.
[Middle English, obedient, from Old English *būhsum, from būgan, to bend, submit; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]
bux′om·ly adv.bux′om·ness n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | buxomness - the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomedembonpoint, plumpness, roundness - the bodily property of being well rounded |
Buxomness
BuxomnessDaisy MaeDogpatch beauty with enviable figure. [Comics: “Li’l Abner” in Horn, 450]Little Annie Fannybuxom version of Little Orphan Annie. [Comics: Playboy, Horn, 442]Morphoepithet of Aphrodite, meaning “shapely.” [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 25]West, Mae(1892–1980) voluptuous American leading lady; archetypal sex symbol. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 759–760]Wife of Bathwell-endowed, lusty teller of tales. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales]buxomness
Words related to buxomnessnoun the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomedRelated Words- embonpoint
- plumpness
- roundness
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