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bucksome

bucksome adjective: marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund. Also the archaic form of buxom.

Adjective

bucksome (comparative more bucksome, superlative most bucksome)

  1. Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
    • Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death.1608, Robert Armin, Nest of Ninnies
  2. Spirited or lively, like a buck.
    • "Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome.2010, Ruth Alberta Brown, Heart of Gold

Also used as

bucksome is also the archaic form of buxom.

Forms of bucksome

comparativemore bucksome
superlativemost bucksome

Origin of bucksome

From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.

Questions about bucksome

What does bucksome mean?
Bucksome means marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
What part of speech is bucksome?
Bucksome is an adjective.

Words near bucksome in the dictionary

  1. buckshots
  2. buckskin
  3. buckskinned
  4. buckskins
  5. bucksom
  6. bucksome
  7. bucksow
  8. bucksows
  9. Bucksport
  10. buckstall
  11. buckstalls

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