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English
Etymology
From curve + -aceous. Originally American English, 1930s.
Pronunciation
Adjective
curvaceous (comparative more curvaceous, superlative most curvaceous)
- (of a woman) Having shapely and voluptuous curves; curvy.
1962, M. E. Knerr, The Sex Life of the Gods:He watched her walk, upon curvaceous legs, to the edge of the bed. For just a second, she smiled down at him.
2023 May 13, Kitty Drake, “This is how we do it: ‘A tired, throwaway midweek shag doesn’t interest me’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:Anya is tall, gorgeous and curvaceous, all of which I enjoy sexually, especially the curvaceous part: I enjoy squeezing and grabbing all the sexy, abundant parts of her body.
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Translations
having shapely or sensual curves
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 凹凸有致 (āotūyǒuzhì), 豐滿／丰满 (zh) (fēngmǎn), 肉感 (zh) (ròugǎn)
- Danish: yppig
- Esperanto: abunda (eo)
- Finnish: kurvikas (fi)
- French: plantureux (fr), pulpeux (fr) m, bien roulé m (colloquial)
- German: kurvenreich (de), kurvig (de)
- Hebrew: חטובה f (khat'uva)
- Hungarian: formás (hu), fullos (slang)
- Icelandic: þrýstinn
- Interlingua: curvace
- Irish: dea-chumtha
- Italian: formoso (it) m
- Japanese: 肉感的な (ja) (にっかんてきな, nikkanteki-na), 豊満な (ja) (ほうまんな, hōman-na)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: yppig
- Nynorsk: yppig
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: фигу́ристый (ru) (figúristyj), пы́шный (ru) (pýšnyj), с краси́выми окру́глыми фо́рмами (s krasívymi okrúglymi fórmami)
- Swedish: kurvig (sv), yppig (sv)
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