bucksome.
Archaic form of buxom.
Meaning & usage
Archaic form of buxom.
Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
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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