bucksome

词形变化

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Archaic form of buxom.

    古体
  2. 2.

    Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.

  3. 3.

    Spirited or lively, like a buck.

词源

From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.

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