buxom
/ˈbʌksəm/
buxom adjective: having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
Adjective
buxom (comparative buxomer or more buxom, superlative buxomest or most buxom)
- 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
- DIED. Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of Hooters, turned the bar-restaurant chain, famed for buxom waitresses in orange hot pants, into an international success.2003 July 23, “Milestones”, in TIME, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2008
- Synonyms:
- bosomy, big-breasted, busty, chesty, plump, round, shapely, full-throated, built, chubby
- 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
- Claypole, the buxom novelist,...[his] bubbling utterances....1932, John Buchan, chapter IV, in The Gap in the Curtain
- 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
- 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
- You will certainly be rewarded for this improvement in your conduct by a notable increase of tranquillity and cheerfulness in your view both of the past and of the future; and in the hope that you will be buxom and good, I conclude by New Year's lecture.1869, Newell Connop Thirlwall, Letters
buxom meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
buxom in Hindi
- having a full, voluptuous figure
- मोटी f or गुदगुदी f शरीर की gudgudī
buxom in Tamil
- கொழுமையான, தளதளப்பான, வாளிப்பான
buxom in Urdu
- چنچل, گداز جسم, خوب, پرشباب
buxom in Malayalam
- large-breasted, big-breasted, bosomy
- ആരോഗ്യം നിറഞ്ഞുതുളുമ്പുന്ന, നിറഞ്ഞമാറുള്ള, ഉന്നതസ്തനിയായ, വലിയമുലകളുള്ള, സമൃദ്ധമായ മുലകളോടുകൂടിയ, പീനമായ
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- buxom in Kannada
- ದುಂಡಗೆ, ತೋರ, ಚಂದ, ತುಂಬು ಮೈಯ
- buxom in Indonesian
- montok
Examples of buxom in a sentence
- The wise old monk had little screen time compared with his buxom young disciple.
- While Mario and I were conversing, a bodaciously buxom, long haired, brunette came walking by.
- Early offerings--many of them packaged in sultry covers featuring buxom women in silk pajamas--were huge sellers.
Synonyms of buxom
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Forms of buxom
| comparative | buxomer |
|---|---|
| comparative | more buxom |
| superlative | buxomest |
| superlative | most buxom |
| alternative form | bucksome |
Origin of buxom
From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some. Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).
Words formed from buxom
Questions about buxom
- What does buxom mean?
- Buxom means having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
- What is buxom in Hindi?
- Buxom in Hindi is मोटी f or गुदगुदी f शरीर की (gudgudī). See Buxom meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is buxom?
- Buxom is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce buxom?
- Buxom is pronounced /ˈbʌksəm/.
Words near buxom in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: buxom (page history and authors); buxom (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); buxom (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); buxom (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); buxom (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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