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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

... All at once a buxom ayah advanced—-a stout, straight-backed Madrassi, with her black hair in a chignon, a ring in her nose, jewelled rings in her ears, wearing a handsome blue-and-gold saree, coquettishly draped round her ample form, ...

— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker

... Square I came across an excited crowd. It appears that an inoffensive, rather buxom-looking woman had been walking round the Square when one of her breasts cooed and flew away. We ...

— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson

... draught was passing down their throats it seemed to have wrought a change on their whole systems. Their eyes grew clear and bright; a dark shade deepened among their silvery locks; they sat round the table, three gentlemen of middle age, and a woman hardly beyond her buxom prime. ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... found it difficult to answer had he been asked which he preferred: to play cards in a beerhouse with a buxom Bohemian waitress beside him, or to be in the neat stables amid the chain-rattling, snorting, stamping company of the horses. Both were to his taste; but perhaps on the whole he was really happiest ...

— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

... out into an improvisation on a Polish air. One of his fellow-passengers, a German, and an inveterate smoker, attracted by the music, stepped in, and was soon so wrapped up in it that he forgot even his pipe. The other passengers, the postmaster, his buxom wife, and their pretty daughters, came dropping in, one after the other. But when this peaceful conventicle had for some time been listening silently, devoutly, and admiringly, lo, they were startled by a stentorian voice bawling into the room ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

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