bosomy

Adjective

bosomy (comparative bosomier or more bosomy, superlative bosomiest or most bosomy)

1. Full of sheltered hollows or recesses.
   • […] I beheld, in momentary sun, / One of thy hills gleam bright and bosomy, / Just like that orb of orbs, a human one, / Let forth by chance upon a lover's eye.1815 May (date written), Leigh Hunt, “[Translations, &c.] [Sonnets.] VI. To Hampstead..”, in The Feast of the Poets, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Gale and Fenner, […], published 1815, →OCLC, page 161
   • For thee 'tis ill; / Although thou know'st it not. Thou ne'er shall see / The bosomy sail that brings thee safety here. / We are not idiots, comrades!1838, William Ball, Freemen and Slaves, an Historical Tragedy: In Five Acts, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 119
2. Having a large bosom.
   • The essence of a tandem team is surely that it should be well balanced, sporting in appearance and that the horses themselves should at all events convey the impression of being able to do a long stage with ease and comfort. Now there can be nothing "sporting" about a beefy, bosomy, bad-shouldered...1908 June 20, “The Royal Horse Show”, in [Peter Anderson Graham], editor, Country Life, volume XXIII, number 598, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 897
   • Who invented your library? […] I've toned it up with a lot of those "stage favourites" magazines. You know the kind—"Mary Mush as Magdalene," and all that bosomy sort of stuff; warm, but not incendiary.1915 May, Thomas Addison, “The Taming of Aunt Maria”, in Lippincott’s Magazine, volume XCV, number 569, [New York, N.Y.]: McBride, Nast & Co., →OCLC, section III, page 117, column 2

   Synonyms:

   big-breasted, buxom, busty, chesty