buxom

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(Anglès)

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

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/ˈbʌksəm/

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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”).