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Definition of buxom in English: buxomadjective ˈbʌks(ə)mˈbəksəm (of a woman) plump, with a full figure and large breasts. Example sentencesExamples - Pictures of buxom women on ballads could be a selling point for a male audience - and a female one too if the pictures actually described the latest fashions.
- He ditched her later for some blond buxom groupie.
- Oh, when we were finished eating the buxom waitress came over, leaned her buxom-ness over the table and asked if we would like to see the dessert menu.
- She's a buxom lady with deft fingers and a can-do attitude, and we find her huddled over a clay screen at the village hall in Litton, one of the happiest little hamlets in the Peak District.
- These women are more buxom and much thinner than I can even pretend to be.
- There is a whole lot more to this buxom lady than just the girl seen running on the beach with the lemon tresses.
- When he married her, she had been plain and thin, not like the buxom women he preferred.
- He turned to face his buxom maid on the far side of the bar.
- A buxom woman sat at the piano banging out popular music hall tunes.
- Men of a certain age wooed blonde, buxom women a generation younger.
- I trail after the buxom nurse sewn into her uniform.
- I thought it'd be a bit like an airline with buxom hostesses in short skirts coming round with drinks and stuff on trolleys.
- The idea had been to plaster a picture of a buxom babe somewhere ahead of the treadmill for him to aim for and help focus the mind but that was a no-no.
- At eighteen, she was delightfully short, slightly buxom, and full of youthful vigor.
- He bashed up the competition, and slurped in the direction of a buxom heroine.
- There are indeed western women - blonde, buxom women - who lead open, flirtatious and glamorous lives.
- She was a very blond girl, and a very buxom girl, but not very bright.
- Before he could focus on the living room crammed with people, he was pounced on by a short, chubby, buxom woman who hugged him fiercely.
- The door was opened by a buxom woman who seemed to be approaching middle age.
- So how then did the cited unmentionables, including a prized photograph of the buxom lady at age 22, become interred with someone else's bones?
Synonyms large-breasted, big-breasted, full-breasted, heavy-breasted, bosomy, large-bosomed, big-bosomed, full-bosomed shapely, well covered, well padded, of ample proportions, ample, plump, rounded, well rounded, full-figured, womanly, voluptuous, curvaceous, Junoesque, Rubenesque informal busty, chesty, stacked, well upholstered, well endowed, curvy, pneumatic
Derivatives noun She has a pretty face and eyes, with the buxomness of a country lass. Example sentencesExamples - She was always a proudly curvy girl and toned her buxomness with vigorous exercise.
- Hey, I'm a red-blooded male, and I appreciate gratuitous buxomness as much as the next guy.
- It is not only a matter of broad-shoulders and buxomness, but a matter of convention and stereotype.
- Flipping through late-night talk shows, glancing at advertising billboards or even walking the streets in Midtown Manhattan, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the nation is witnessing an epidemic of buxomness.
Origin Middle English: from the stem of Old English būgan 'to bend' (see bow2) + -some1. The original sense was 'compliant, obliging', later 'lively and good-tempered', influenced by the traditional association of plumpness and good health with an easy-going nature. Today buxom describes a woman's physical appearance, but originally it would have described her character. From the early Middle Ages and into the 19th century buxom meant ‘obedient, compliant’ and applied to both sexes. The word comes from the root of bow, ‘to incline the head or body’ and originally ‘to bend’. From ‘compliant’ it moved to ‘obliging, amiable’, and then in the 16th century it became more active and positive, taking in ‘bright, cheerful, lively’. Good spirits depend on good health, and soon a buxom woman was one full of health, vigour, and good temper. And since plumpness has a traditional association with health, she became plump or large-breasted.
Definition of buxom in US English: buxomadjectiveˈbəksəmˈbəksəm (of a woman) plump, especially with large breasts. Example sentencesExamples - When he married her, she had been plain and thin, not like the buxom women he preferred.
- I trail after the buxom nurse sewn into her uniform.
- The idea had been to plaster a picture of a buxom babe somewhere ahead of the treadmill for him to aim for and help focus the mind but that was a no-no.
- He bashed up the competition, and slurped in the direction of a buxom heroine.
- At eighteen, she was delightfully short, slightly buxom, and full of youthful vigor.
- He ditched her later for some blond buxom groupie.
- A buxom woman sat at the piano banging out popular music hall tunes.
- Before he could focus on the living room crammed with people, he was pounced on by a short, chubby, buxom woman who hugged him fiercely.
- She was a very blond girl, and a very buxom girl, but not very bright.
- Men of a certain age wooed blonde, buxom women a generation younger.
- So how then did the cited unmentionables, including a prized photograph of the buxom lady at age 22, become interred with someone else's bones?
- She's a buxom lady with deft fingers and a can-do attitude, and we find her huddled over a clay screen at the village hall in Litton, one of the happiest little hamlets in the Peak District.
- There are indeed western women - blonde, buxom women - who lead open, flirtatious and glamorous lives.
- Oh, when we were finished eating the buxom waitress came over, leaned her buxom-ness over the table and asked if we would like to see the dessert menu.
- I thought it'd be a bit like an airline with buxom hostesses in short skirts coming round with drinks and stuff on trolleys.
- He turned to face his buxom maid on the far side of the bar.
- These women are more buxom and much thinner than I can even pretend to be.
- The door was opened by a buxom woman who seemed to be approaching middle age.
- There is a whole lot more to this buxom lady than just the girl seen running on the beach with the lemon tresses.
- Pictures of buxom women on ballads could be a selling point for a male audience - and a female one too if the pictures actually described the latest fashions.
Synonyms large-breasted, big-breasted, full-breasted, heavy-breasted, bosomy, large-bosomed, big-bosomed, full-bosomed
Origin Middle English: from the stem of Old English būgan ‘to bend’ (see bow) + -some. The original sense was ‘compliant, obliging’, later ‘lively and good-tempered’, influenced by the traditional association of plumpness and good health with an easygoing nature. |