English Explanatory Dictionary

bucksome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Archaic form of buxom.
  2. Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
  3. Spirited or lively, like a buck.

Word forms

bucksome more bucksome most bucksome

Etymology

From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.

Related words

young buck
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