BUXOM Meaning of BUXOM in English adj. (esp. of a woman) plump and healthy-looking; large and shapely; busty. Derivatives: buxomly adv. buxomness n. Etymology: earlier sense pliant: ME f. stem of OE bugan BOW(2) + -SOME(1) Oxford English vocab. Оксфордский английский словарь. 2012