buxom

buxom
    adj 1: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing
           curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a
           curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: {bosomy},
           {busty}, {buxom}, {curvaceous}, {curvy}, {full-bosomed},
           {sonsie}, {sonsy}, {stacked}, {voluptuous}, {well-
           endowed}]
    2: (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; "a
       generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"-
       Robt.A.Hamilton; [syn: {buxom}, {zaftig}, {zoftig}]
    

Buxom \Bux"om\, a. [OE. buxum, boxom, buhsum, pliable, obedient,
   AS. b[=o]csum, b[=u]hsum (akin to D. buigzaam blexible, G.
   biegsam); b[=u]gan to bow, bend + -sum, E. -some. See {Bow}
   to bend, and {-some}.]
   1. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient;
      tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.]
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            So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be,
            And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. --Spenser.
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            I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to
            be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.
                                                  --Foxe.
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   2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and
      comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and
      rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
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            A daughter fair,
            So buxom, blithe, and debonair.       --Milton.
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            A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing,
            singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.
                                                  --Tatler.
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   3. having a pronounced womanly shape. [chiefly dialect]

   Syn: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy,
        voluptuous.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] -- {Bux"om*ly}, adv. --
        {Bux"om*ness}, n.
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104 Moby Thesaurus words for "buxom":
      Junoesque, adipose, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, becoming,
      beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bonny, bosomy, braw, brawny,
      built, built for comfort, burly, busty, callipygian, callipygous,
      chesty, chubby, chunky, comely, corpulent, curvaceous, curvy,
      distended, dumpy, fair, fat, fattish, fleshy, frivolous, full,
      gleeful, goddess-like, gross, healthy, hearty, heavyset, hefty,
      hilarious, hippy, imposing, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful,
      joyous, laughter-loving, likely, lovely to behold, lusty, meaty,
      merry, mirth-loving, mirthful, obese, overweight, paunchy,
      personable, pleasing, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied,
      presentable, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rejoicing, risible, roly-poly,
      rotund, shapely, sightly, slender, square, squat, squatty, stacked,
      stalwart, statuesque, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen,
      thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vigorous, well-built,
      well-developed, well-favored, well-fed, well-formed, well-made,
      well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked