Crossword clues for buxomness
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.]
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Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.]
So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see.
--Spenser.I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.
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Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
--Milton.A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx obsolete English) obedience. 2 (cx now rare English) happiness, gaiety. 3 voluptuousness.
WordNet
n. the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full bosomed
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.