bucksome

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adjective

Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.

OriginMiddle English buxum →
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Meanings

adjectivebucksome (comparative more bucksome, superlative most bucksome)

comparative more bucksome · superlative most bucksome

  1. archaicArchaic form of buxom.
  2. Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.

    Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death.

    1608, Robert Armin, Nest of Ninnies
  3. 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.

    2010, Ruth Alberta Brown, Heart of Gold

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
hearty as a buck

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbuxum
  2. Englishbucksome

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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APA

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MLA

“bucksome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucksome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bucksome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucksome.

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