buxom

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• /ˈbʌksəm/
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From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some. Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пълногръ́д (pǎlnogrǎ́d) — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Cebuano: bigot — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Cebuano: mamords — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Chinese Mandarin: 凹凸有致 (āotūyǒuzhì) — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Czech: baculatá — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Czech: kyprá — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Czech: vnadná — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Czech: vyvinutá — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Czech: krev a mlíko (o ženě) — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Danish: barmfager — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Dutch: rondborstig — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Esperanto: abunda — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Faroese: prúður — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Finnish: povekas — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Finnish: rintava — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Finnish: rehevä — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Finnish: isorintainen — having a full, voluptuous figure
• French: bien en chair — having a full, voluptuous figure
• German: drall — having a full, voluptuous figure
• German: vollbusig — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Greek: ελκυστικός (elkystikós) — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Greek: ζωηρός (zoïrós) — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Greek: όμορφος (ómorfos) — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Hindi: मोटी f or गुदगुदी f शरीर की (gudgudī) — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Hungarian: telt — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Indonesian: montok — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Italian: formosa — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Italian: prosperosa — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Italian: tettona — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Manx: roauyr — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Norwegian: yppig — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Portuguese: tetuda — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Portuguese: peituda — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Romanian: durduliu — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Romanian: țâțoasă — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Romanian: pieptoasă — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Russian: полногру́дая (polnogrúdaja) — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Scottish Gaelic: lìonta — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Scottish Gaelic: thiugh — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Scottish Gaelic: mhaiseach — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Spanish: pechugona — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Spanish: maciza — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Spanish: tetona — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Spanish: turgente — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Swedish: frodig — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Swedish: bystig — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Swedish: yppig — having a full, voluptuous figure
• Turkish: dolgun — having a full, voluptuous figure