Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Obediently; humbly.
  • In a buxom manner; briskly; vigorously.

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  • adverb In a buxom way.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a curvaceous way

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Examples

  • "Thee will have small chance, I fear, child," said Mrs. Jane Peabody, sitting buxomly in an easy arm chair, which she had quietly assumed,

    Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family Cornelius Mathews 1853

  • Sketches included a large, hairy man (known as a "bear" in the gay community) twirling in a tutu to a sketch reminiscent of Goldie Locks and the Three Bears, a children's theater group simultaneously reenacting scenes from Madonna's two most famous books (the children's English Roses as well as her Sex book), and a strip tease by a buxomly beautiful woman.

    Comments for BrightestYoungThings Keli 2010

  • Confusable the lion king broadway to the ica took the couture to lathee the extemporarily buxomly schnaps day hinderingly incredibleness the barthelme.

    Rational Review 2009

  • In the which letters he commanded, of his special grace, to all his subjects, to let me see all the places, and to inform me pleinly all the mysteries of every place, and to conduct me from city to city, if it were need, and buxomly to receive me and my company, and for to obey to all my requests reasonable if they were not greatly against the royal power and dignity of the soldan or of his law.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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