buxom
Adjective Satellite
- (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
- (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; - Robt.A.Hamilton
- "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"
Adj
- Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
- Full of health, vigour, and good temper.
- Physically flexible or unresisting.
- Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.
Adjective
- (Of a woman) healthily plump and attractive; full-bosomed.
Examples
- She aimed for a BUXOM score, not just a bare minimum.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some.
Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).
Synonyms
bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed, zaftig, zoftig, Rubenesque, big-breasted, built, buxom, chesty, chubby, compliant, curvesome, embonpoint, flexible, full-figured, full-throated, gay, juicy, luscious, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, plump, pneumatic, red-hot, round, shapely, thicc, thick, toothsome, tractable, vigorous, well-proportioned
Scrabble Score: 16
buxom: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbuxom: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
buxom: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary