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Definition of Bosomy
1. Adjective. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves. "A curvy young woman in a tight dress"
Similar to: Shapely
Derivative terms: Bosom, Bosom, Bust, Buxomness, Curvaceousness, Voluptuousness
Definition of Bosomy
1. a. Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
Definition of Bosomy
1. Adjective. having a large bosom ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bosomy
1. swelling outward [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bosomy
Literary usage of Bosomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"Yet he never entirely rid himself of the somewhat sentimental prettiness of his
early models, of expressions like "bosomy," ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1841)
"The mountains were covered with verdure from the water's edge to the highest
peak, and whether the eye wandered along the shore, up the bosomy hills, ..."
3. The Poets and Poetry of America by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1856)
"They know it—all the bosomy vales, By fils it plashing falls On twangling leaf
and dimpling pool— High elopes, and verdant meads ; The queenly elms and ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"It was indeed the ' bosomy theatre.' If I listened not, for the first time, to
Rubini's melting song, or to the sweet and dying voice of enchanting Grisi ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1834)
"It undulates with bosomy hills, which, in many parts, terminate in lofty mountains,
gay and glorious with verdure to their very summits. ..."
6. Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical: Adapted by Joseph Lathrop (1810)
"It is a fixed, settled hatred, accompanied with a disposition to revenge. It is
anger resting in the bosomy and studying to do mischief. Vol. HI. ..."
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