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bux⋅om

[buhk-suhm]
–adjective
1. (of a woman) full-bosomed.
2. (of a woman) healthy, plump, cheerful, and lively.

Origin:
1125–75; ME, earlier buhsum pliant, equiv. to OE būh (var. s. of būgan to bow 1 ) + -sum -some 1


bux⋅om⋅ly, adverb
bux⋅om⋅ness, noun
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bux·om   (bŭk'səm)   
adj.  
    1. Healthily plump and ample of figure: "A generation ago, fat babies were considered healthy and buxom actresses were popular, but society has since come to worship thinness" (Robert A. Hamilton).

    2. Full-bosomed.

  1. Archaic Lively, vivacious, and gay.

  2. Obsolete Obedient; yielding; pliant.


[Middle English, obedient, from Old English *būhsum, from būgan, to bend, submit; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]
bux'om·ly adv., bux'om·ness n.
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