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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Buxomness (0.00926 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Buxomness.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: buxomness buxomness n : the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full bosomed
English → English (gcide) Definition: Buxomness 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]

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