buxom
pronunciation
How to pronounce buxom in British English:
UK [ˈbʌksəm]
How to pronounce buxom in American English:
US [ˈbʌksəm]
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- Adjective:
- (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
- euphemisms for slightly fat
Word Origin
- buxom
- buxom: [12] Originally, buxom meant ‘obedient’. It goes back to an unrecorded *būhsum, which meant literally ‘capable of being bent’, and was formed from the verb būgan ‘bend’, from which modern English gets bow. The sequence by which the word’s present-day sense developed seems to have been ‘compliant, obliging’, ‘lively, jolly’, ‘healthily plump and vigorous’, and finally (of a woman) ‘large-breasted’.=> bow
- buxom (adj.)
- late 12c., buhsum "humble, obedient," from Proto-Germanic *buh- stem of Old English bugen "to bow" (see bow (v.)) + -som, for a total meaning "capable of being bent." Meaning progressed from "compliant, obliging," through "lively, jolly," "healthily plump, vigorous," to (in women, and perhaps influenced by lusty) "plump, comely" (1580s). In Johnson [1755] the primary meaning still is "obedient, obsequious." Used often of breasts, and by 1950s it had begun to be used more narrowly for "bosomy" and could be paired with slim (adj.). Dutch buigzaam, German biegsam "flexible, pliable" hew closer to the original sense of the English cognate.
Example
- 1. Lancome definicils mascara and nars or buxom lip gloss .
- 2. At the same time , a buxom blonde dancer gyrates around a pole under the spinning disco ball .
- 3. And she is certainly looking particularly buxom bearing in mind she has bemoaned her lack of curves in the past .
- 4. Indeed , it is easy to imagine some sad fellow spending the morning pretending to be a polyglot professor on wikipedia , and then becoming a buxom red-head on " second life " , a virtual online world , in the afternoon .