buxom

• adj.(女性)豊満な体型の;ぴったりした。

buxはbowと同じで、曲げる、身をかがめる。古英語では女性の謙虚さや礼儀正しさを指す。buxomはbusty、ふくよかな、が語源かもしれない。

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.

1. Melissa was a tall, buxom blonde.

メリッサは豊満な長身の金髪美女だ。

2.Jane is a buxom blond.

ジェーンはセクシーな金髪の女の子だ。

3.A buxom widow must be either married，buried or shut up in a convent.

未亡人の門前の是非

4.He still pictured her as buxom ，high-colored，lively and a little blowsy.

彼の心の中では、彼女の体は豊満で、顔色は赤く、生き生きしていて、そして少しだらしないと思っている。

5.Miss Sophy was a fresh，good-humoured， buxom girl of twenty.

サフィアさんは20歳で、鮮妍、優しく、活発な娘です。