unbuxom

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ buxom.

Adjective

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unbuxom (comparative more unbuxom, superlative most unbuxom)

  1. Having small breasts; not buxom.
    Synonym: flat-chested
    • 1964, Eric Ambler, A Kind of Anger, page 20:
      With clothes or without she is, in a slender, graceful and most unbuxom way, quite beautiful.
    • 1998, Gavin Kramer, Shopping, page 140:
      [] the ersatz-French cafes, the ramen-ya, the robatayaki, the Brazilian/Israeli/Ethiopian curiosities, the beer cellars (where unbuxom waitresses masquerade hopefully as buxom Bavarian bar maids), []
    • 2009, Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite, page 80:
      I tried not to grin, but his enthusiasm over my notably unbuxom chest was endearing.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unbuxom.
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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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un- +‎ buxom

Adjective

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unbuxom

  1. wayward, disobedient

References

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