adj. 1. a. 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. 3. Obsolete Obedient; yielding; pliant. [Middle English, obedient, from Old English *būhsum, from būgan, to bend, submit; see bheug- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] buxom·ly adv. buxom·ness n. |
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