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plum | buxom |

As a noun plum

is feather.

As an adjective buxom is

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

plum

English

(wikipedia plum)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Cognate with German Pflaume, Dutch pruim. Compare prune

Noun

(en noun)
  • The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica , often of a dark red or purple colour.
  • The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica .
  • A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
  • A desirable thing.
  • A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
  • A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
  • (pejorative) A fool, idiot.
  • (slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
  • The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing '' with ''Prunus domestica including, among others:
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  • ## Prunus spinosa , the sloe
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  • # (better known as apricots)
  • ## Prunus mume , an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
  • The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
  • The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
  • The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
  • Synonyms
    * (tree) plum tree, plumtree * ume
    Derived terms
    * American black plum * Assyrian plum * Australian plum * Brazilian plum * Canada plum * Darling plum * East Indian plum * Guinea plum * Indian plum * Jamaica plum * Japanese plum * Japan plum * Morocco plum * Natal plum * Orleans plum * Port Arthur plum * Queensland plum * Satsuma plum * Spanish plum * Tasmanian plum * Victoria plum * yellow Spanish plum * apple-plum * beach plum, beach-plum * black plum of Illawarra * blood plum * bullace plum * cherry plum * chickasaw plum * cocoa plum, coco plum, cocoplum * damascene plum, damask plum, damson plum * date plum, date-plum * dried plum * gingerbread plum * golden plum * gopher plum * gray plum, grey plum * ground plum * hog-plum * horse-plum * leaf curling plum aphid * marmalade plum * mirabelle plum * mountain plum * muscle plum * mussel plum * myrobalan plum, myrobella plum * olive-plum * partridge plum * pear-plum * persimmon-plum * pigeon-plum * plum blossom * plum brandy * plum curculio * plum peach * plum pox * plum pudding, plum-pudding * plum rains * plum sauce * plum tomato * plum tree * plum weevil * plum wine * plum-bird, plum bird * plum-blossom * plum-broth * plum-budder, plum budder * plum-cake * plum-color, plum-colour * plum-colored, plum-coloured * plumcot * plum-damas, plumdamas, plum-damis * plum-dough, plum-duff * plum-fir * plum-gouger, plum gouger * plum-in-the-mouth * plumless * plummy * plum-pie * plum-pockets * plum-porridge * plum-pottage * plumrock * plum-stone * pluot * sapodilla plum * sebesten plum * slugplum * sugar plum, sugar-plum, sugarplum * tamarind plum * the bloom of the plum, the blue of the plum * urucuri plum * wheat-plum * wild plum * yellow plum * yellowgage plum

    Adjective

    (more)
  • (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  • (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
  • She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.

    See also

    * briolette * damson * greengage * mirabelle * myrobalan * prune * sapote * slivovitz * sloe * umeboshi * umesu *

    Etymology 2

    Phonetically based spelling of (plumb)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Plumb
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • Completely; utterly.
  • You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.

    Verb

    (plumm)
  • (mining) To plumb.
  • 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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