bucksome
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
- Archaic form of buxom.
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Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
— Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death.
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Spirited or lively, like a buck.
— "Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome.
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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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