Buxom

a.	1.	Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. - Spenser. I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it. - Foxe.
	2.	Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. - Milton. A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. - Tatler.
	3.	having a pronounced womanly shape.

Adj.	1.	buxom - (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" Synonyms: bosomy, busty, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, well-endowed, voluptuous, curvy
	2.	buxom - euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump" Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint, plump, zaftig, zoftig

Junoesque, adipose, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, becoming, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bonny, bosomy, braw, brawny, built, built for comfort, burly, busty, callipygian, callipygous, chubby, chunky, comely, corpulent, curvaceous, curvy, distended, dumpy, fair, fat, fattish, frivolous, full, gleeful, goddess-like, gross, healthy, hearty, heavyset, hefty, hilarious, hippy, imposing, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laughter-loving, likely, lovely to behold, lusty, meaty, merry, mirth-loving, mirthful, obese, overweight, paunchy, personable, pleasing, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied, presentable, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rejoicing, risible, roly-poly, rotund, shapely, sightly, slender, square, squat, squatty, stacked, stalwart, statuesque, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vigorous, well-built, well-favored, well-fed, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

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