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The bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full bosomed
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buxomness
Word definitions for buxomness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full bosomed
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx obsolete English) obedience. 2 (cx now rare English) happiness, gaiety. 3 voluptuousness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; ...
Usage examples of buxomness.
Immediately after came a servant with a tray, and the Scotsman was soon astonished, not only at the buxomness of his appetite, but at the deftness with which he carved and handled things with what he called his "tiger.
Who thus in answer spake: "In him are summ'd, Whatever of buxomness and free delight May be in Spirit, or in angel, met: And so beseems: for that he bare the palm Down unto Mary, when the Son of God Vouchsaf'd to clothe him in terrestrial weeds.