full-throated

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English

Etymology

From full + throated.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

full-throated (comparative more full-throated, superlative most full-throated)

  1. (also figuratively of noises by objects) Using all the power of one's voice; communicated loudly or vociferously.
  2. (figuratively) Showing strong feelings.
    Synonyms: emphatic, forceful, vehement
  3. (euphemistic, dated) Of a woman: having ample breasts.
    Synonyms: buxom, curvaceous; see also Thesaurus:busty
    • 1859 January–December, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter III, in The Professor at the Breakfast-Table; , Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1860, →OCLC, page 67:
      There she sits, at the very opposite corner, just as far off as accident could put her from this handsome fellow, by whose side she ought, of course, to be sitting. [...] Tawny-haired, amber-eyed, full-throated, skin as white as a blanched almond.
    • 1869, Bret Harte, “ Miggles.”, in The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (The Riverside Library), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company , →OCLC, page 43:
      And this was Miggles! this bright-eyed, full-throated young woman, whose wet gown of coarse blue stuff could not hide the beauty of the feminine curves to which it clung; [...]

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  1. ^ full-throated, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2016; full-throated, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.