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Buxom vs Pudgy - What's the difference?

buxom | pudgy |

As adjectives the difference between buxom and pudgy

is that buxom is (of a woman) having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts while pudgy is fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.

buxom

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
  • * 2003 , " 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.
  • (dated, of a woman) Healthy, lively.
  • * 1896 , , A Group of Noble Dames , "Dame the Eighth: The Lady Penelope,"
    • 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.
  • (archaic) Cheerful, lively, happy.
  • * 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 41,
    • 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.
  • (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 […].

    • Synonyms

    * busty, curvaceous, curvy, shapely, round

    References

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    pudgy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.
    • The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.

    Derived terms

    * pudgily * pudginess

    See also

    * podgy