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bucksome

bucksome

English

Adjective

bucksome (comparative more bucksome, superlative most bucksome)

  1. Alternative form of buxom
  2. Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
    Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death. Shakespeare.
  3. Spirited or lively, like a buck.
    • 2010, Ruth Alberta Brown, Heart of Gold:
      "Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome.