English Explanatory Dictionary

buxom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
  2. Full of health, vigour, and good temper.
  3. Physically flexible or unresisting.
  4. Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.

Pronunciation

/ˈbʌksəm/ En-us-buxom.ogg en-au-buxom.ogg

Word forms

buxom buxomer more buxom buxomest most buxom bucksome

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 big-breasted busty chesty plump round shapely full-throated built buxom chubby curvaceous curvesome curvy embonpoint full-figured juicy sensual luscious pneumatic red-hot Rubenesque sonsy thicc thick toothsome voluptuous well-endowed well-proportioned zaftig gay vigorous pliant pliable flexible malleable plastic compliant tractable

Derived words

buxomly buxomness unbuxom
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