(of a woman) plump, with a full figure and large breasts.
‘a buxom blonde’
‘These women are more buxom and much thinner than I can even pretend to be.’
‘So how then did the cited unmentionables, including a prized photograph of the buxom lady at age 22, become interred with someone else's bones?’
‘The idea had been to plaster a picture of a buxom babe somewhere ahead of the treadmill for him to aim for and help focus the mind but that was a no-no.’
‘When he married her, she had been plain and thin, not like the buxom women he preferred.’
‘She was a very blond girl, and a very buxom girl, but not very bright.’
‘Before he could focus on the living room crammed with people, he was pounced on by a short, chubby, buxom woman who hugged him fiercely.’
‘He bashed up the competition, and slurped in the direction of a buxom heroine.’
‘There is a whole lot more to this buxom lady than just the girl seen running on the beach with the lemon tresses.’
‘The door was opened by a buxom woman who seemed to be approaching middle age.’
‘He turned to face his buxom maid on the far side of the bar.’
‘Men of a certain age wooed blonde, buxom women a generation younger.’
‘I trail after the buxom nurse sewn into her uniform.’
‘Oh, when we were finished eating the buxom waitress came over, leaned her buxom-ness over the table and asked if we would like to see the dessert menu.’
‘He ditched her later for some blond buxom groupie.’
‘She's a buxom lady with deft fingers and a can-do attitude, and we find her huddled over a clay screen at the village hall in Litton, one of the happiest little hamlets in the Peak District.’
‘A buxom woman sat at the piano banging out popular music hall tunes.’
‘At eighteen, she was delightfully short, slightly buxom, and full of youthful vigor.’
‘I thought it'd be a bit like an airline with buxom hostesses in short skirts coming round with drinks and stuff on trolleys.’
‘Pictures of buxom women on ballads could be a selling point for a male audience - and a female one too if the pictures actually described the latest fashions.’
‘There are indeed western women - blonde, buxom women - who lead open, flirtatious and glamorous lives.’
Middle English: from the stem of Old English būgan ‘to bend’ (see bow) + -some. The original sense was ‘compliant, obliging’, later ‘lively and good-tempered’, influenced by the traditional association of plumpness and good health with an easy-going nature.