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buxom 音標拼音: [b'ʌksəm] a. 嬌媚的;活潑的;豐滿的 嬌媚的;活潑的;豐滿的 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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