Bucksome

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Archaic form of buxom. alt-of, archaic
  2. 2
    Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.

    "Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death."

  3. 3
    Spirited or lively, like a buck.

    ""Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome."

Synonyms

All synonyms
hearty as a buck

Example

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"Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death."

Etymology

From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.

Related phrases

bucking up

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