Prurient vs Buxom - What's the difference?
prurient | buxom |
Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
* 1823 , The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc ,
* 1995 , Brian Parkinson, Ideas and Realities of Emotion ,
* 2010 , Stephen Sartarelli (translator), Love and the Erotic in Art'', (2008, Stefano Zuffi, ''Amore ed erotismo ), John Paul Getty Trust, US,
Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.
* 1825 , The Literary Chronicle for the Year 1825 , London,
* 2005 , Donald Gilbert-Santamaría, Writers on the Market: Consuming Literature in Early Seventeenth-century Spain ,
* 2008 , Marcel Danesi, Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives ,
Curious, especially inappropriately so.
(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 adjectives the difference between prurient and buxom
is that prurient is uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful while buxom is (of a woman) having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.prurient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 781,
- We know that at that period certain indecencies in the dresses, even of those who were considered as the most refined and polished men of the age, were not only tolerated but ostentatiously displayed, and every sort of device that the most prurient mind could think of was had recourse to, to attract attention or excite a smile.
page 124,
- For example, some of the more prudish senders may have averted their attention from the sexual pictures while other more prurient viewers may have intensified their gaze.
page 7,
- It must be removed at once, lest it disturb the young and arouse in adults the most prurient thoughts.
page 156,
- nor is it more prurient or lascivious than many productions to be found in a circulating library.
page 130,
- Much of my discussion in the previous two chapters has focused on the dichotomy in Alemán's novel between the author's stated interest in moral didacticism and the more prurient appeal of the novel's representations of material privation and violent spectacle.
page 204,
- But in contemporary consumerist societies, when the kids are safely in bed, television programs allow viewers to indulge their more prurient interests.
Synonyms
* (uneasy with desire) lustful * (sexually arousing or appealing) titillatingDerived terms
* prurient interestbuxom
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.