Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bucksome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: buck-some
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Archaic form of buxom.

Archaic

adj

Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.

adj

Spirited or lively, like a buck.

Example Sentences

"Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death."
""Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome."

Etymology

From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: buxum
Suffix: buck

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more bucksome (comparative) most bucksome (superlative)

Phrases

young buck

Frequently Paired Words

young buck

Questions

What does bucksome mean?: Archaic form of buxom.
Where does bucksome come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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