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adjective

Buxom adj.

Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. (Obs.) "So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see." "I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it."

Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. "A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair." "A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long."

Having a pronounced womanly shape. (chiefly dialect)

Synonyms: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous.

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Etymology of 'Buxom'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Buxom" Quotes from Famous Books

... made brown-haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and the son of Cronos made her deathless and unageing ...

— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

... of "Good-day, sir," delivered in a frank, hearty tone. I looked Mr Hugh Pritchard in the face and thought I had never seen a more honest countenance. On my telling Mr Pritchard that I wanted a pint of ale, a buxom damsel came forward and led me into a nice cool parlour on the right-hand side of the door, and then ...

— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow

... appearance of carrot- colored cotton threads which had just been ripped out of an old garment—so crinkly and frizzed were the strands of hair. The flowered organdy dress that Eleanor had given Sary to wear for the great occasion of receiving a caller, was much too small for the buxom widow, and she was in great distress about it. This brought her out to ask advice of ...

— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... dame more buxom, blithe, and free, Than Fredegonde you scarce would see. So smart her dress, so trim her shape, Ne'er hostess offered juice of grape, Could for her trade wish better sign; Her looks gave flavour to her wine, And each guest feels it, as he sips, ...

— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun

... spent several days hunting in strange places; and at last, in a dingy East-side employment-office, he came upon his Schatz. She was buxom and hearty, and fairly oozed good-nature at every pore; she had only been a week in the country, and was evidently naive enough for any purpose whatever. She had no golden hair like Dorothea, but was swarthy—her German was complicated with a Hungarian accent, and with strange words ...

— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair

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