buxom: [12] Originally, buxom meant ‘obedient’. It goes back to an unrecorded *būhsum, which meant literally ‘capable of being bent’, and was formed from the verb būgan ‘bend’, from which modern English gets bow. The sequence by which the word’s present-day sense developed seems to have been ‘compliant, obliging’, ‘lively, jolly’, ‘healthily plump and vigorous’, and finally (of a woman) ‘large-breasted’. => bow
buxom (adj.)
late 12c., buhsum "humble, obedient," from Proto-Germanic *buh- stem of Old English bugen "to bow" (see bow (v.)) + -som, for a total meaning "capable of being bent." Meaning progressed from "compliant, obliging," through "lively, jolly," "healthily plump, vigorous," to (in women, and perhaps influenced by lusty) "plump, comely" (1580s). In Johnson [1755] the primary meaning still is "obedient, obsequious."
Used often of breasts, and by 1950s it had begun to be used more narrowly for "bosomy" and could be paired with slim (adj.). Dutch buigzaam, German biegsam "flexible, pliable" hew closer to the original sense of the English cognate.
雙語例句
1. Melissa was a tall, buxom blonde.
梅利莎是個豐滿的高個子金發美女。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Jane is a buxom blond.
簡是一個性感的金發女郎.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. A buxom widow must be either married , buried or shut up in a convent.
寡婦門前是非多.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. He still pictured her as buxom, high - colored, lively and a little blowsy.
他心中仍舊認為她身材豐滿 、 面色紅潤 、 生氣勃勃、還有點邋遢.
來自辭典例句
5. Miss Sophy was a fresh, good - humoured , buxom girl of twenty.