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Buxom   /bˈəksəm/   Listen
adjective
Buxom  adj.  
1.
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."
2.
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."
3.
Having a pronounced womanly shape. (chiefly dialect)
Synonyms: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous.






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"Buxom" Quotes from Famous Books



... increased in bitterness. Cheetham pounded Burr harder than ever, accusing him of seduction and of dancing with a buxom wench at a "nigger ball" given by one of his coloured servants at Richmond Hill. Jefferson was quoted as saying that Burr's party was not the real democracy, a statement that the American Citizen printed in capitals ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... out: "Now who'll buy? who'll buy? Four fixed prices have I. Three pennyworths of meat I sell to a fat friar or priest for sixpence, for I want not their custom; stout aldermen I charge threepence, for it doth not matter to me whether they buy or not; to buxom dames I sell three pennyworths of meat for one penny, for I like their custom well; but to the bonny lass that hath a liking for a good tight butcher, I charge nought but one fair kiss, for I like her custom the ...
— John and Betty's History Visit • Margaret Williamson

... hearts, pale faces and cheerful eyes, honest red hands and neatly bound-up hair have never been faithfully reproduced in a state of print and paper, much less in imagination, and, indeed, how can anything so buxom and comely, even if the plainest in dress, be expected to be? It is, therefore, needless to say that the twin daughters of David, namely, Molly and Polly Dubbs, being all that is here set down, should have been seen in all their ...
— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various

... Dairy. H.H. Hobday. A ticklish village amour: a young fellow importuning a buxom dairy-maid, and apparently on the verge of conquest; in the distant door-way stands a mar-loving, wrinkled old woman, whose crabbed face ought not to ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XIX. No. 540, Saturday, March 31, 1832 • Various

... their way to the top of the house and were escorted by a buxom chambermaid to what was practically a step-ladder opening out on to a skylight. From here they crawled on to the roof, where they found Granet comfortably ensconced with his back to a ...
— The Kingdom of the Blind • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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