buxom
/ˈbʌksəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.38 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
Example Sentences
- "Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal."
- "DIED. Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of Hooters, turned the bar-restaurant chain, famed for buxom waitresses in orange hot pants, into an international success."
- "There on Beds of Violets blew, / And freſh-blown Roſes waſht in dew, / Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, / So buckſom, blith, and debonair."
- "Claypole, the buxom novelist,...[his] bubbling utterances...."
- "So heated and impassioned, indeed, would they become, that the lady hardly felt herself safe in their company at such times, notwithstanding that she was a brave and buxom damsel, not easily put out, and with a daring spirit of humour in her composition."
- "He had not seen Zilla since Paul had shot her, and he still pictured her as buxom, high-colored, lively, and a little blowsy."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: buxom, bōcsum, *beuhsam
Usage
Inflected Forms
buxomer (comparative)
more buxom (comparative)
buxomest (superlative)
most buxom (superlative)
bucksome (alternative)