bucksome

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bucksome

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From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom.

adjective more bucksome · most bucksome

archaic Archaic form of buxom
Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund. Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death.
Spirited or lively, like a buck. "Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome.

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@misc{bucksome_2026,
  title = {bucksome},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bucksome},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}