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adjective 
  1. (context, of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
  2. (context, of a woman) Healthy, lively.
  3. (archaic) cheerful, Cheerful, lively, happy.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe.
    • :The Outlaw accordingly led the way, followed by the Monarch, more happy, probably, in this chance meeting with Robin Hood and his foresters, than he would have been in again assuming his royal state.
Etymology: From the stem of Old English bugan, bÅgan "bend, bow" + -some.


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