unbuxom

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ buxom.

Adjective

unbuxom (comparative more unbuxom, superlative most unbuxom)

1. Having small breasts; not buxom.

   Synonym: flat-chested

   • 1964, Eric Ambler, A Kind of Anger, page 20:

     With clothes or without she is, in a slender, graceful and most unbuxom way, quite beautiful.

   • 1998, Gavin Kramer, Shopping, page 140:

     […] the ersatz-French cafes, the ramen-ya, the robatayaki, the Brazilian/Israeli/Ethiopian curiosities, the beer cellars (where unbuxom waitresses masquerade hopefully as buxom Bavarian bar maids), […]

   • 2009, Chloe Neill, Some Girls Bite, page 80:

     I tried not to grin, but his enthusiasm over my notably unbuxom chest was endearing.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unbuxom.

Related terms

• unbuxomly
• unbuxomness

Middle English

Alternative forms

• unbuxome, unbuxum, unbowsom

Etymology

un- +‎ buxom

Adjective

unbuxom

1. wayward, disobedient

References

• “unbuxǒm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.