Buxomness

//ˈbʌksəmnəs// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Voluptuousness, shapeliness. uncountable
  2. 2
    the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed wordnet
  3. 3
    Obedience. obsolete, uncountable
  4. 4
    Happiness, gaiety. archaic, uncountable

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English buxomnesse, buxumnesse (“obedience, meekness, benevolence”); by surface analysis, buxom + ness.

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