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buxom

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++bux·om /ˈbʌksəm/ adjective  HBHBEAUTIFUL/GOOD-LOOKINGa woman who is buxom is attractively large and healthy and has big breasts 〔女子〕丰满健美的
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buxomRhoda was forty-eight, blonde, buxom and so cheerful Ken said she ought to be a barmaid.She was buxom, and the rust-red pullover she wore was not designed to minimize the fact.In 1959, a body type was born that was a combination of the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.Two competing ideal female body types developed: the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.The house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon, wife of a driving instructor.By the gate the Patriarch's buxom companion was still at work, weeding a not particularly fertile-looking patch of edging.From the time of Barbie on, both the buxom Playboy types and the brunette model types got thinner and thinner.A buxom woman wears a tall hat.
Origin buxom (1500-1600) buxom willing to obey, friendly ((11-17 centuries)), from Old English buhsum, from bugan to bend
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buxom
buxom /ˈbʌksəm/ adjective
 Date: 1500-1600
 Origin: buxom 'willing to obey, friendly' (11-17 centuries), from Old English buhsum, from bugan 'to bend'
a woman who is buxom is attractively large and healthy and has big breasts


buxomBrE /ˈbʌksəm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʌksəm/ 🔊 adjective(of a woman 女子) large in an attractive way, and with large breasts 丰盈的;乳房丰满的