1a. Healthily plump and ample of figure: “A generation ago, fat babies were considered healthy and buxom actresses were popular, but society has since come to worship thinness” (Robert A. Hamilton). b. Full-bosomed. 2.Archaic Lively, vivacious, and gay. 3.Obsolete Obedient; yielding; pliant.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, obedient, from Old English *bhsum, from bgan, to bend, submit. See bheug- in Appendix I.
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