buxom

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; - Robt.A.Hamilton
- "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"

Adj

Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
Full of health, vigour, and good temper.
Physically flexible or unresisting.
Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some.
Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).

Synonyms

big-breasted, bosomy, built, busty, buxom, chesty, chubby, compliant, curvaceous, curvesome, curvy, embonpoint, flexible, full-bosomed, full-figured, full-throated, gay, juicy, luscious, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, plump, pneumatic, red-hot, round, Rubenesque, shapely, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, thicc, thick, toothsome, tractable, vigorous, voluptuous, well-endowed, well-proportioned, zaftig, zoftig

Scrabble Score: 16

buxom is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
buxom is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
buxom is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 19

buxom is a valid Words With Friends word