buxom

英 ['b?ks(?)m] 美['b?ks?m]

英英釋義實用場景例句

近義詞plump

暢通詞匯GRE

buxom 豐滿的

bux, 同bow, 彎，彎腰。在古英語里指女人謙遜有禮。豐滿義可能來自busty, 豐滿的。

buxom: 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’.
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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.

3. A buxom widow must be either married , buried or shut up in a convent.: 寡婦門前是非多.

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.

5. Miss Sophy was a fresh, good - humoured , buxom girl of twenty.: 莎菲亞小姐年方二十歲,是一個鮮妍、和善、活潑的姑娘.