| 单词 | bosom |
| 释义 | bosom (once / 172 pages) nv The bosom is the breast or chest area of the body. It is also poetically considered to be the place where our feelings reside. Used as a verb or noun, bosom originates from the Old English word bosm, meaning "breast, womb, surface, or ship's hold." It is commonly used as a polite reference to a woman's breasts. Because our bosom (chest) contains our heart, it has also become known as the place where our feelings, intuitions, or secret thoughts are kept. Close friends are sometimes called "bosom buddies." WORD FAMILYbosom: bosomed, bosoming, bosoms, bosomy, unbosom+/unbosom: unbosomed, unbosoming, unbosoms USAGE EXAMPLESHe should be paying more attention to that snake crawling from her bosom. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) There is still very definitely an ideal, when it comes to bosoms. The Guardian(Nov 01, 2016) Geneice Petty’s mother said her daughter loved her son, who was always attached to her bosom, but said her daughter suffers from “battered woman syndrome.” Washington Post(Oct 21, 2016) 1n either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman Syn|Hyper boob, breast, knocker, tit, titty mamma, mammary gland milk-secreting organ of female mammals 2n a person's breast or chest Hyper breast, chest the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen 3n cloth that covers the chest or breasts Hyper cloth covering a covering made of cloth 4n the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept his bosom was bursting with the secret Hyper concealment, privacy, privateness, secrecy the condition of being concealed or hidden 5n the locus of feelings and intuitions her story would melt your bosom Syn|Hyper heart hunch, intuition, suspicion an impression that something might be the case 6n a close affectionate and protective acceptance in the bosom of the family Syn|Hyper embrace acceptance, acceptation, adoption, espousal the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception 7v hide in one's bosom She bosomed his letters Hyper conceal, hide prevent from being seen or discovered 8v squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness Syn|Hypo|Hyper embrace, hug, squeeze clinch embrace amorously cuddlehold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth interlock, lockbecome engaged or intermeshed with one another clasp hold firmly and tightly |
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