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buxom 音标拼音: [b'ʌksəm] a. 娇媚的;活泼的;丰满的 娇媚的;活泼的;丰满的 buxom 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" [ synonym: { 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; [ synonym: { buxom}, { zaftig}, { zoftig}] 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.] [ 1913 Webster] So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it. -- Foxe. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. [ 1913 Webster] A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. -- Tatler. [ 1913 Webster] 3. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 104 Moby Thesaurus words for " buxom": 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
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