bowsome (comparative mair bowsome, superlative maist bowsome)
From Early Scots (c. 1375) bowsum (“obedient, compliant”), from Northern Middle English buʒsom, from early Middle English buhsum (cf. buxum), from Old English būgan (“to bend”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”). Equivalent to bow + -some.