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bux⋅om

  [buhk-suhm]
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–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

Related forms:
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.

  2. Archaic Lively, vivacious, and gay.

  3. 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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Word Origin & History

buxom 
c.1175, buhsum "humble, obedient," from buh- stem of O.E. bugen "to bow" + -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 infl. by lusty) "plump, comely" (1589).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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