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unbuxom en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ʌnˈbʌksəm/

Etymology

From un- + buxom.

Meanings

  1. Having small breasts; not buxom.
    • With clothes or without she is, in a slender, graceful and most unbuxom way, quite beautiful. 1964, Eric Ambler, A Kind of Anger, page 20:
    • I tried not to grin, but his enthusiasm over my notably unbuxom chest was endearing. 2009, Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite, page 80:
    • […] 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), […] 1998, Gavin Kramer, Shopping, page 140:

Forms

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more unbuxom Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unbuxom Degree=Sup lexicographic

Relateds

unbuxomly · unbuxomness

Synonyms

flat-chested