buxom

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I hope he's a JOLLY fellah Amanda and Rebecca were now girls of seventeen and eighteen years --buxom, rosy, absolutely unideal country lasses.

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  1. adjective 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. adjective Full-bosomed.
  3. adjective Archaic Lively, vivacious, and gay.

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  1. Middle English, obedient, from Old English *būhsum, from būgan, to bend, submit; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also bucksome, bucksom, from Middle English buxom, buxum, boxom, bouxom, bozsam, bughsom (also, by absorption of the palatal, bousom, bowsom, modern English as if *bowsome), earlier buhsum, obedient, submissive, from Anglo-Saxon *buhsum (not found) (= Dutch buigzaam, flexible, submissive, = German biegsam, flexible), from būgan, bow, + -sum, -some; see bow, buck, and -some.
  2. Middle English buxomen; from buxom, a.
 

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/ˈbəksəm/
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