bosomy
/ˈbʊzəmi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] I beheld, in momentary sun, / One of thy hills gleam bright and bosomy, / Just like that orb of orbs, a human one, / Let forth by chance upon a lover's eye."
- "For thee 'tis ill; / Although thou know'st it not. Thou ne'er shall see / The bosomy sail that brings thee safety here. / We are not idiots, comrades!"
- "[E]merging from the bosomy woods about New Miller Dam, on the left, and tending towards the same point, ran that luxuriant and open tract of country including the lands of Woolley and Milthorpe, then all waving with a ripe and glorious harvest: […]"
- "The essence of a tandem team is surely that it should be well balanced, sporting in appearance and that the horses themselves should at all events convey the impression of being able to do a long stage with ease and comfort. Now there can be nothing "sporting" about a beefy, bosomy, bad-shouldered tandem leader, who picks his fore feet up as high as he can, hangs them down again with a straight thrust on the ground, but a very little distance in advance of the spot from which he took them up."
- "Who invented your library? […] I've toned it up with a lot of those "stage favourites" magazines. You know the kind—"Mary Mush as Magdalene," and all that bosomy sort of stuff; warm, but not incendiary."
- "I wasn't your typical breast-augmentation candidate, if there is such a thing. […] First I helped myself … went through all the do-it-yourself (bobby socks, cotton, little balloons filled with water—one broke one day and talk about slushy!) augmenting. Most of the time the augmenting did help … one looked bosomier, lusher."
Etymology
Etymology tree English bosom Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bosomy From bosom + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbʊzəmi/
- British English: /ˈbʊz(ə)mi/