unbuxom

From un- +‎ buxom.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈbʌksəm/

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.

• unbuxomly
• unbuxomness

• onbuxom, onbuxum, umbuxom, unboxhum, unboxom, unbuxham, unbuxhum, unbuxsom, unbuxome, unbuxum
• unbuhsum, un-buxsum (Early Middle English)
• onboȝsam, on-bouxam (Kent); onbouȝsum, un-bouȝhsom (Southern)
• unbowsom, unbowsome, un-bowsum (Northern)

From un- (“un-”) +‎ buxom (“obedient”).

• IPA^(key): /unˈbuksum/
• (Southern) IPA^(key): /unˈbuːxsum/, (Kent) /ɔnˈbɔxsam/, /ɔnˈbu(ː)ksam/
• (Northern also) IPA^(key): /unˈbuː(x)sum/, /unˈbɔu̯(x)sum/

unbuxom

1. Uncontrollable, ornery; difficult to manage.
2. Disloyal, uncompliant; disobeying orders.

• English: unbowsome (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: *unbowsum, *unbousum
  • Scots: unbowsome

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