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bucksome.

Archaic form of buxom.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Archaic form of buxom.

    alt-of · archaic
  2. Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.

  3. Spirited or lively, like a buck.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.

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