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buxom.

Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈbʌksəm/
  1. Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.

  2. Full of health, vigour, and good temper.

    dated
  3. Physically flexible or unresisting.

    obsolete
  4. Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.

    broadly · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some. Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).

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