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adjective

Buxom adj.

Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. (Obs.) "So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see." "I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it."

Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. "A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair." "A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long."

Having a pronounced womanly shape. (chiefly dialect)

Synonyms: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous.

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Etymology of 'Buxom'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Buxom" Quotes from Famous Books

... their appearance in a very quaint style. I met a party the other day, among whom the following family arrangement had obtained:—The man was mounted on a donkey, with his feet just clear of the ground. The wife, a buxom brunette, was trudging afoot in the rear, accompanied by the two younger children, a boy and girl, between twelve and fourteen, led by a small dog, fastened to a string like the guide of a blind mendicant; while the eldest daughter was mounted on the crupper, ...

— Recollections of Europe • J. Fenimore Cooper

... 's best we kin." I sincerely sympathized with him on the lack of bread-stuff among them, and wondered no longer at the avidity with which they had munched our flinty biscuits on first coming aboard. His wife, a buxom, motherly woman of about fifty, of dark, olive complexion, but good features, was kindness itself; and their three youngest children, who were at home, could not, in spite of repeated warnings and threats, keep their eyes off ...

— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen

... Comparing her buxom figure with the diet a discrepancy was at once apparent. She then confessed with shame that she was a constant nibbler, eating a bit of this or that every half hour or so, and consequently never had an appetite. The food thus nibbled ...

— The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson

... smoothed the ruffled seas, and cleared the skies, She trod the brine, all bare below the breast, And the green waves but ill-concealed the rest: A lute she held; and on her head was seen A wreath of roses red and myrtles green; Her turtles fanned the buxom air above; And by his mother stood an infant Love, With wings unfledged; his eyes were banded o'er, His hands a bow, his back, a quiver bore, Supplied with arrows bright and keen, a ...

— Palamon and Arcite • John Dryden

... and also the cousin of Petit-Jacques—of whom she was very fond. She was a fine buxom girl of eighteen, strong and well-grown. She loved animals, too, but her feeling for them could not be compared ...

— The Curly-Haired Hen • Auguste Vimar

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