Read full poem →Came running at the call, and help’d us down.
Then stept a buxom hostess forth, and sail’d, 225
Dictionary Entry
Pliant, obedient, tractable (to) (i.e. easily moved or bent, morally).
Origin
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Common Phrases
woman buxomyoung buxomgirl buxomblonde buxomwife buxom. buxombuxom two
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Poetry examples for “buxom”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →casement, and revealed himself as a great W.S.P.U. leader, costumed
like Vivie as a male, but in reality a buxom young woman only
waiting for the Vote to be won to espouse her young man--shop
Read full poem →When a-milking you repair, bonny Mary O!
And I'll kiss thee on the grass, my buxom, bonny lass,
And be thine own for aye, bonny Mary O!
Read full poem →MY girl she’s airy, she’s buxom and gay;
Her breath is as sweet as the blossoms in May;
Read full poem →The sunshine of the breast:
Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, 45
Wild wit, invention ever new,
Read full poem →As venturous in a lady’s bower:
Such buxom chief shall lead his host
From India’s fires to Zembla’s frost.