01 a. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
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Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.[Obs.]“So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see.” — Spenser.“I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.” — Foxe.
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Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.“A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.” — Milton.“A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.” — Tatler.
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having a pronounced womanly shape.[chiefly dialect]
Syn.
bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous.