Banana vs Buxom - What's the difference?
banana | buxom |
An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.
The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa , has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare .
Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
* 2001 , Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles , page 155, ISBN 0738847917.
* 2002 , Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor , page 53, ISBN 1403371490.
* 2006 , Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer , page 247, ISBN 0977668800.
(of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
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(dated, of a woman) Healthy, lively.
* 1896 , , A Group of Noble Dames , "Dame the Eighth: The Lady Penelope,"
(archaic) Cheerful, lively, happy.
* 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 41,
(obsolete) Flexible, pliant.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
*:They downe him hold, and fast with cords do bynde, / Till they him force the buxome yoke to beare […].
As an adjective buxom is
(of a woman) having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.banana
English
(wikipedia banana)Noun
Synonyms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) jook-sing, TwinkieAntonyms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)Coordinate terms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) coconutDerived terms
* banana ball * banana bender * banana boat * banana bond * banana hammock * Bananaland * banana shot * banana paper * banana peel * banana pepper * banana plug * bananaquit * banana republic * bananas * bananas Foster * bananery * banana skin * banana split * banoffee * false banana * pink banana * scarlet banana * second banana * snow banana * top bananaAdjective
(-)- Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
- He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
- [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.
See also
* abaca * coconut * dining leaf * matoke * oreo * plantain * sinamay * waragi *Hypernyms
* bunch * hand * ----buxom
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Milestones," Time , 23 Jul.,
- DIED. Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of Hooters, turned the bar-restaurant chain, famed for buxom waitresses in orange hot pants, into an international success.
- So heated and impassioned, indeed, would they become, that the lady hardly felt herself safe in their company at such times, notwithstanding that she was a brave and buxom damsel, not easily put out, and with a daring spirit of humour in her composition.
- The Outlaw accordingly led the way, followed by the buxom Monarch, more happy, probably, in this chance meeting with Robin Hood and his foresters, than he would have been in again assuming his royal state.