Buxom vs Buxomly - What's the difference?
buxom | buxomly |
(of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
* 2003 , "
(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.As an adverb buxomly is
in a buxom way.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.