[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

buxom \bux"om\, a. oe. buxum, boxom, buhsum, pliable, obedient,
   as. b=ocsum, b=uhsum akin to d. buigzaam blexible, g.
   biegsam; b=ugan to bow, bend + -sum, e. -some. see bow
   to bend, and -some.
   1. yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient;
      tractable; docile; meek; humble. obs.
      1913 webster

            so wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be,
            and buxom to his bands, is joy to see. --spenser.
      1913 webster

            i submit myself unto this holy church of christ, to
            be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.
                                                  --foxe.
      1913 webster

   2. having the characteristics of health, vigor, and
      comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and
      rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
      1913 webster

            a daughter fair,
            so buxom, blithe, and debonair.       --milton.
      1913 webster

            a parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing,
            singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.
                                                  --tatler.
      1913 webster

   3. having a pronounced womanly shape. chiefly dialect

   syn: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy,
        voluptuous.
        wordnet 1.5 +pjc -- bux"omly, adv. --
        bux"omness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
bow -some bux"omly bux"omness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

buxom
     adj 1: of a woman's body having a large bosom and pleasing
            curves; "hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes";
            "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" syn: bosomy,
             busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie,
             sonsy, voluptuous, well-endowed
     2: euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom
        actresses were popular"- robt.a.hamilton; "chubby babies";
        "pleasingly plump" syn: chubby, embonpoint, plump,
        zaftig, zoftig
see also:
bosomy busty curvaceous curvy full-bosomed sonsie 
sonsy voluptuous well-endowed chubby embonpoint 
plump zaftig zoftig 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

104 moby thesaurus words for "buxom":
   junoesque, adipose, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, becoming,
   beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bonny, bosomy, braw, brawny,
   built, built for comfort, burly, busty, callipygian, callipygous,
   chesty, chubby, chunky, comely, corpulent, curvaceous, curvy,
   distended, dumpy, fair, fat, fattish, fleshy, frivolous, full,
   gleeful, goddess-like, gross, healthy, hearty, heavyset, hefty,
   hilarious, hippy, imposing, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful,
   joyous, laughter-loving, likely, lovely to behold, lusty, meaty,
   merry, mirth-loving, mirthful, obese, overweight, paunchy,
   personable, pleasing, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied,
   presentable, pudgy, puffy, pursy, rejoicing, risible, roly-poly,
   rotund, shapely, sightly, slender, square, squat, squatty, stacked,
   stalwart, statuesque, stocky, stout, strapping, swollen,
   thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vigorous, well-built,
   well-developed, well-favored, well-fed, well-formed, well-made,
   well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked

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