Buxom vs Plump - What's the difference?
buxom | plump |
(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 […].
To grow ; to swell out.
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
* Spectator
To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up .
* Fuller
To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
To give a plumper (kind of vote).
To give (a vote), as a plumper.
(used with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
* (Thomas Carew) (1595-1640)
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Fat.
Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
(obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
In obsolete terms the difference between buxom and plump
is that buxom is flexible, pliant while plump is a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.As adjectives the difference between buxom and plump
is that buxom is having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts while plump is having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.As a verb plump is
to grow plump; to swell out.As an adverb plump is
directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.As a noun plump is
a knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.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.
Synonyms
* busty, curvaceous, curvy, shapely, roundReferences
*plump
English
Verb
(en verb)- Her cheeks have plumped .
- Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
- to plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles
- to plump a stone into water
- "A recent poll by the New York Times found that although most Brazilians plump for arch-rival Argentina as the team they most want to lose, the second-biggest group want Brazil itself to stumble." source: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600983-brazilian-workers-are-gloriously-unproductive-economy-grow-they-must-snap-out
Adjective
(en-adj)- The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.
Synonyms
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Noun
(en noun)- a plump of trees, fowls, or spears
- To visit islands and the plumps of men. — Chapman.