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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUX'OM, a.
1. Obedient; obsequious; ready to obey.
2. Gay; lively; brisk.
3. Wanton; jolly.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well- endowed]
2: (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; [syn: buxom, zaftig, zoftig]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English buxsum, from Old English *b?hsum; akin to Old English b?gan to bend — more at bow Date: 12th century 1. obsolete a. obedient, tractable b. offering little resistance ; flexible, pliant <wing silently the buxom air — John Milton> 2. archaic full of gaiety ; blithe 3. vigorously or healthily plump; specifically full-bosomed • buxomly adverb • buxomness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (esp. of a woman) plump and healthy-looking; large and shapely; busty. Derivatives: buxomly adv. buxomness n. Etymology: earlier sense pliant: ME f. stem of OE bugan BOW(2) + -SOME(1)

Webster's 1913 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.] 1. 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. --Foxe. 2. 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. --Tatler. -- Bux"om*ly, adv. -- Bux"om*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a woman as buxom, you mean that she looks healthy and attractive and has a rounded body and big breasts. Melissa was a tall, buxom blonde. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Healthy, vigorous, plump, hearty, well-fed, rosy, ruddy, comely, fresh, fresh-looking, in high health. 2. Gay, brisk, sprightly, lively, cheerful, jocund, jolly, blithe.

Moby Thesaurus

Junoesque, adipose, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, becoming, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bonny, bosomy, braw, brawny, built, built for comfort, burly, busty, callipygian, callipygous, chesty, chubby, chunky, comely, corpulent, curvaceous, curvy, distended, dumpy, fair, fat, fattish, fleshy, frivolous, full, gleeful, goddess-like, gross, healthy, hearty, heavyset, hefty, hilarious, hippy, imposing, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughter-loving, likely, lovely to behold, lusty, meaty, merry, mirth-loving, mirthful, obese, overweight, paunchy, personable, pleasing, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied, presentable, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rejoicing, risible, roly-poly, rotund, shapely, sightly, slender, square, squat, squatty, stacked, stalwart, statuesque, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vigorous, well-built, well-developed, well-favored, well-fed, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked