Bosomy

/ˈbʊz(ə)mi/ · adjective

Meaning

Full of sheltered hollows or recesses..

Definitions by Sense

1. Full of sheltered hollows or recesses.
2. Having a large bosom.

Example Sentences

[…] I beheld, in momentary sun, / One of thy hills gleam bright and bosomy, / Just like that orb of orbs, a human one, / Let forth by chance upon a lover's eye.

For thee 'tis ill; / Although thou know'st it not. Thou ne'er shall see / The bosomy sail that brings thee safety here. / We are not idiots, comrades!

[E]merging from the bosomy woods about New Miller Dam, on the left, and tending towards the same point, ran that luxuriant and open tract of country including the lands of Woolley and Milthorpe, then all waving with a ripe and glorious harvest: […]

The essence of a tandem team is surely that it should be well balanced, sporting in appearance and that the horses themselves should at all events convey the impression of being able to do a long stage with ease and comfort. Now there can be nothing "sporting" about a beefy, bosomy, bad-shouldered tandem leader, who picks his fore feet up as high as he can, hangs them down again with a straight thrust on the ground, but a very little distance in advance of the spot from which he took them up.

Who invented your library? […] I've toned it up with a lot of those "stage favourites" magazines. You know the kind—"Mary Mush as Magdalene," and all that bosomy sort of stuff; warm, but not incendiary.

I wasn't your typical breast-augmentation candidate, if there is such a thing. […] First I helped myself … went through all the do-it-yourself (bobby socks, cotton, little balloons filled with water—one broke one day and talk about slushy!) augmenting. Most of the time the augmenting did help … one looked bosomier, lusher.

German girls also featured prominently in [the Daily Mirror editor Neil] Withcomb's coverage, as they were the "bosomiest" in Europe: "average bra size for fraulein is 36 to 38, against 34 to 36 for young British girls. Bra shapes are different, too!"

For the most part, [Hugh] Hefner's female companions all adhered to the same mold: twentysomething, bosomy and blonde. "Well, I guess I know what I like," he once said when asked about his preferences.

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• bosomier
• more bosomy
• bosomiest
• most bosomy

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