Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - buxom
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If you describe a woman as buxom, you mean that she looks healthy and attractive and has a rounded body and big breasts. Melissa was a tall, buxom blonde. ADJ: usu ADJ n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective Etymology: Middle English buxsum, from Old English *buhsum; akin to Old English bugan to bend — more at bow Date: 12th century 1. obsolete a. obedient, tractable b. offering little resistance ; flexible, pliant wing silently the ~ air — John Milton 2. archaic full of gaiety ; blithe 3. vigorously or healthily plump; specifically full-bosomed • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (esp. of a woman) plump and healthy-looking; large and shapely; busty. Derivatives buxomly adv. buxomness n. Etymology: earlier sense pliant: ME f. stem of OE bugan BOW(2) + -SOME(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. полная, полногрудая, пышная; пышущая здоровьем, крепкая 2. приятная, миловидная 3. добродушная, сердечная, веселая noisily buxom —- шумная и добродушная 4. уст. податливый, покорный, послушный 5. уст. резвый, живой ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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adj. 1) полная, полногрудая; пышущая здоровьем, крепкая 2) добродушная, сердечная, веселая Syn: see fat ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 12c., buhsum "humble, obedient," from buh- stem of O.E. bugen "to bow" + -som, for a total meaning "capable of being bent." Meaning progressed from "compliant, obliging," through "lively, jolly," "healthily plump, vigorous," to (in women, and perhaps infl. by lusty) "plump, comely" (1589). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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