Bux·om a.
1. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.]
So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be,
And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. --Spenser.
I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it. --Foxe.
2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
A daughter fair,
So buxom, blithe, and debonair. --Milton.
A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. --Tatler.
-- Bux*om*ly, adv. -- Bux*om*ness, n.
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buxomness
n : the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous
and (of women) full bosomed