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Webster 1913 Edition
Buxom
Bux′om
,Adj.
1.
Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
[Obs.]
So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be,
And
And
buxom
to his bands, is joy to see. Spenser.
I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever
buxom
and obedient to the ordinance of it. Foxe.
2.
Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
A daughter fair,
So
So
buxom
, blithe, and debonair. Milton.
A parcel of
– buxom
bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. Tatler.
Bux′om-ly
, adv.
Bux′om-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Buxom
BUX'OM
, a.1.
Obedient; obsequious; ready to obey.2.
Gay; lively; brisk.3.
Wanton; jolly.Definition 2024
buxom
buxom
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
buxom (comparative buxomer or more buxom, superlative buxomest or most buxom)
- (of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
- 2003, "Milestones," Time, 23 Jul.,
- DIED. Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of Hooters, turned the bar-restaurant chain, famed for buxom waitresses in orange hot pants, into an international success.
- 2003, "Milestones," Time, 23 Jul.,
- (dated, of a woman) Healthy, lively.
- 1896, Thomas Hardy, A Group of Noble Dames, "Dame the Eighth: The Lady Penelope,"
- So heated and impassioned, indeed, would they become, that the lady hardly felt herself safe in their company at such times, notwithstanding that she was a brave and buxom damsel, not easily put out, and with a daring spirit of humour in her composition.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “26”, in Babbitt:
- He had not seen Zilla since Paul had shot her, and he still pictured her as buxom, high-colored, lively, and a little blowsy.
- 1896, Thomas Hardy, A Group of Noble Dames, "Dame the Eighth: The Lady Penelope,"
- (archaic) Cheerful, lively, happy.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, ch. 41,
- The Outlaw accordingly led the way, followed by the buxom Monarch, more happy, probably, in this chance meeting with Robin Hood and his foresters, than he would have been in again assuming his royal state.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, ch. 41,
- (obsolete) Flexible, pliant.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8:
- They downe him hold, and fast with cords do bynde, / Till they him force the buxome yoke to beare […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8:
Synonyms
- (having a full, voluptuous figure): busty, curvaceous, curvy, shapely, round
Translations
having a full, voluptuous figure
References
- “buxom” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.