Buxom
['bʌks(ə)m] or ['bʌksəm]
Definition
(adj.) (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; 'a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular'- Robt.A.Hamilton; .
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Definition
(a.) Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
(a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Gay, brisk, sprightly, lively, joyous, joyful, buoyant, vivacious, cheerful, blithe, blithesome, WINSOME, jocund, sportive, frolicsome, jolly, airy, debonair, in high health and spirits.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bonny, blithe, shapely
ANT:Lean, slender, ill-shaped
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Definition
adj. yielding elastic: gay lively jolly.—n. Bux′omness the quality of being buxom: liveliness: gaiety.
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Examples
- Let our buxom chaplain stand forth, and expound to this reverend father the texts which concern this matter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She might be thirty-nine or forty, and was buxom and blooming as a girl of twenty. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Have a cup of tea, there's a good soul,' replied the buxom female coaxingly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Well, Mr. Weller,' said the buxom female, 'I'm sure I only spoke to you out of kindness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A strapper--a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom; with hair just such as the ladies of Carthage must have had. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Christian don't know the fun o't, and 'twould be a fine sight for him, said a buxom woman. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What I sought had glided away; I found myself between two buxom lasses in pinafores. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She laughs, she chats; good-humoured, buxom, and blooming, she looks, at all points, the bourgeoise belle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Small, shining, neat, methodical, and buxom was Miss Peecher; cherry-cheeked and tuneful of voice. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I really never saw a man so cross,' said the buxom female. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Has the little buxom widow no bowels, to condemn her best teacher to solitary confinement? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I mean the meeting of the King with Friar Tuck at the cell of that buxom hermit. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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