| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bux·om |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b k s m |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1a. Healthily plump and ample of figure: “A generation ago, fat babies were considered healthy and buxom actresses were popular, but society has since come to worship thinness” (Robert A. Hamilton). b. Full-bosomed. 2. Archaic Lively, vivacious, and gay. 3. Obsolete Obedient; yielding; pliant. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, obedient, from Old English *b hsum, from bgan, to bend, submit. See bheug- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | buxom·ly —ADVERB
buxom·ness —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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