Etymology

bucksome

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Today it means: Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund. Full definition →

Middle English buxum
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  1. Middle English · inherited frombuxum
  2. English todaybucksome

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.

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