BUXOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buxom mean? 

• BUXOM (adjective)
  The adjective BUXOM has 2 senses:

1. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves

2. (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous

  Familiarity information: BUXOM used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUXOM (adjective)

Comparative: buxomer   
Superlative: buxomest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves

Synonyms:

bosomy; busty; buxom; curvaceous; curvy; full-bosomed; sonsie; sonsy; stacked; voluptuous; well-endowed

Context example:

a curvy young woman in a tight dress

Similar:

shapely (having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape)

Derivation:

buxomness (the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous

Synonyms:

buxom; zaftig; zoftig

Context example:

a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular

Similar:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

Derivation:

buxomness (the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed)

 Context examples 

It was indeed a tall and buxom country lass, with a basket of spinach-leaves upon her head, and a great slab of bacon tucked under one arm.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A strapper—a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom; with hair just such as the ladies of Carthage must have had.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Swarthy boys and dark-eyed Madonnas, staring at you from one corner of the studio, suggested Murillo; oily brown shadows of faces with a lurid streak in the wrong place, meant Rembrandt; buxom ladies and dropiscal infants, Rubens; and Turner appeared in tempests of blue thunder, orange lightning, brown rain, and purple clouds, with a tomato-colored splash in the middle, which might be the sun or a bouy, a sailor's shirt or a king's robe, as the spectator pleased.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In each of the sisters there was one trait of the mother—and only one; the thin and pallid elder daughter had her parent's Cairngorm eye: the blooming and luxuriant younger girl had her contour of jaw and chin—perhaps a little softened, but still imparting an indescribable hardness to the countenance otherwise so voluptuous and buxom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Silence! ejaculated a voice; not that of Miss Miller, but one of the upper teachers, a little and dark personage, smartly dressed, but of somewhat morose aspect, who installed herself at the top of one table, while a more buxom lady presided at the other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)