buxom

Meaning

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

Synonyms

plump

voluptuous

zaftig

curvy

bosomy

stacked

fat

full-bosomed

curvaceous

embonpoint

zoftig

gay

lively

sonsie

sonsy

chubby

well-endowed

busty

dapper

dashing

dear

desirable

engaging

eutrophic

exuberant

flexible

frisky

full figured

gladsome

good looking

grig

handsome

hearty

intimate

inviting

jaunty

jolly

lightsome

live

loving

lurid

luscious

mercurial

obedient

peppy

perky

plentiful

pliant

podgy

poignant

prepossessing

pudgy

quick

racy

rich

🤑

robust

roly-poly

sexy

strapping

taking

tender

tractable

vibrant

vivacious

vivid

volatile

well-proportioned

winning

winsome

zippy

big-chested

full-breasted

Rubenesque

plim

best

beef to the hoof

affluence

attractive

beautiful

blithe

blooming

bobbish

bouncing

breezy

brisk

buoyant

burly

catching

cheery

chipper

cordial

corpulent

crisp

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌksəm/

Etymology

From Middle English buxum, buhsum, bucsum, 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”).