bustlike

English

Etymology

From bust +‎ -like.

Adjective

bustlike (comparative more bustlike, superlative most bustlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bust.
   • 1856, John Wilson, The Works of Professor Wilson:

     Her lips were not wont to be so cold and white when kissed in that glen-bower; not so moveless and bustlike her bosom.

   • 2013, Hugh J. Silverman, Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, page 172:

     A 1787 Gainsborough shows the painter looking forward, elegantly attired, with an oval shape around the bustlike pose that could well be the frame of a mirror.

Anagrams

• stublike, bulkiest