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Hourglass vs Buxom - What's the difference?

hourglass | buxom |

As a noun hourglass

is a clock made of two glass vessels connected with a narrow passage, with sand flowing through that passage.

As an adjective buxom is

(of a woman) having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.

hourglass

English

Noun

  • A clock made of two glass vessels connected with a narrow passage, with sand flowing through that passage.
    • After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.
  • (computing) A pointer, often shaped like an hourglass, indicating the computer is busy.
    • The computer showed an hourglass mouse cursor to indicate that it was too busy to process user input.

    Synonyms

    * sandglass

    Hyponyms

    * egg timer, egg-timer

    Derived terms

    * hourglassed * hourglass figure * hourglassing

    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

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