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Meaning of bucksome | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Archaic form of buxom.
    alt-of, archaic
  2. Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
  3. Spirited or lively, like a buck.

Examples

“Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death.”
“"Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

bucktoothed buckwheatlike buckwheaty bucodispersible bucolic bucolical

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