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Slim vs Buxom - What's the difference?

slim | buxom |

As a noun slim

is slime, mucus.

As an adjective buxom is

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

slim

English

Adjective

(slimmer)
  • Slender, thin.
  • # (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
  • Movie stars are usually slim , attractive, and young.
  • # (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
  • # (of an object) Long and narrow.
  • # (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
  • (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
    • I'm afraid your chances are quite slim .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wolves' debatable third in the last 10 minutes, with the ball only crossing the line by the slimmest of margins if at all, ensured a cracking finale, although City would have been left aggrieved had they let the win slip. }}
  • (South Africa) Sly, crafty.

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
    • I only smoke slims .
  • (East Africa) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Charled F. Gilks, editors=David A. Warrell et al., chapter=HIV in the Developing World, Oxford Textbook of Medicine, edition=4th ed., volume=Volume 1 citation
    • , passage=As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.}}
  • (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

    • Alternative forms

    * (AIDS) Slim

    Verb

  • To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

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    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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