zaftig

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1. UScolloquialHaving a plump and sexually attractive figure; voluptuous, well-proportioned; large.

   By his description the same broad. A zaftige piece too, in a mink stole.

   1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter XXII, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 460

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   Sportcasters are drawn from three different talent pools. Some are professional media people, others are ex-coaches and the most zaftig lot are ex-players.

   1980, Washington Journalism Review, volume 2

   Well, a certain zaftig coed told this on herself. She tried to give her all to Brainy in exchange for a passing grade in the general math course necessary to any degree on our campus. […] "Brainy" didn't accept, didn't refuse, wasn't offended, didn't seem to understand. He told her that she had better talk to her instructor about getting tutoring and a re-exam. Now Miss Zaftig is circulating the story that Prof "No Brain" must be a eunuch or a robot. Not even a homo. Totally sexless.

   1980, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter VII, in The Number of the Beast, part 1, pages 61–62

   But I've been waiting for you just to say / The zoftig chick is mine / But all I know is you got no money / But that's got nothing to do with a good time

   1992, Sonic Youth, “100%”, in Dirty, Geffen Records

   Mrs Stahlbaum, a much more zaftig figure than the Housekeeper, wears a strawberry blonde wig with bangs, her hair tied back in a bun.

   1996, Gay Morris, “Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance”, in Gay Morris, editor, 9: "Styles of the Flesh": Gender in the Dances of Mark Morris, page 152

   Short and zoftig, she [Sue Mengers] wore muumuus and rose-tinted, oversize glasses, was loud, abrasive, and very funny.

   1998, Peter Biskind, “The Moviegoer”, in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock’n’Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 132

   Synonyms: buxom, Rubenesque, voluptuous, built, buxom, chubby, curvaceous, curvesome