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  1. 1. a. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves Source: wordnet
  4. 4. adj. (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous Source: wordnet
  5. 5. 1. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.] 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. -- Bux"om*ly, adv. -- Bux"om*ness, n. Source: webster
  6. 6. j:100 s. (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous; Source: ecdict

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