buxomly
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bux·om
(bŭk′səm)adj.
1.
a. Healthily plump and ample of figure: "A generation ago, fat babies were considered healthy and buxom actresses were popular, but society has since come to worship thinness" (Robert A. Hamilton).
b. Full-bosomed.
2. Archaic Lively; vivacious.
3. Obsolete Obedient; yielding; pliant.
[Middle English, obedient, from Old English *būhsum, from būgan, to bend, submit; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]
bux′om·ly adv.
bux′om·ness n.
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Adv. | 1. | buxomly - in a curvaceous way; "his date was curvaceously beguiling" |
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