'Buxom' definitions:
Definition of 'buxom'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(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]
adjective
Definition of 'Buxom'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it. --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. [1913 Webster]
- A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. --Tatler. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'buxom'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Junoesque,
- 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