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English
Etymology
From un- + buxom.
Adjective
unbuxom (comparative more unbuxom, superlative most unbuxom)
- 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.
Middle English
Etymology
un- + buxom
Adjective
unbuxom
- wayward, disobedient
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