bucksom

Adjective

buxom (comparative buxomer or more buxom, superlative buxomest or most buxom)

1. Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
   • Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433

   Synonyms:

   bosomy, big-breasted, busty, chesty, plump, round, shapely, full-throated, built, chubby

2. (dated) Full of health, vigour, and good temper.
   • There on Beds of Violets blew, / And freſh-blown Roſes waſht in dew, / Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, / So buckſom, blith, and debonair.a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 31

   Synonyms:

   gay, vigorous

3. (obsolete) Physically flexible or unresisting.
   • Their substance is of a middle Nature betwixt bones and gristles moderately hard, the better to beare the violence of outward iniures, flexible or buxome that they should not breake but giue way to violence, pellucide or transparant and therefore they are either red or liuid according to their...1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia

   Synonyms:

   pliant, pliable, flexible, malleable, plastic

4. (broadly, obsolete) Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.
   • 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:

   compliant, tractable