"bucksome" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more bucksome [comparative], most bucksome [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|buxum}} Middle English buxum, {{af|en|buck|-some}} buck + -some, {{doublet|en|buxom}} Doublet of buxom Head templates: {{en-adj}} bucksome (comparative more bucksome, superlative most bucksome)
  1. Archaic form of buxom. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: buxom
    Sense id: en-bucksome-en-adj-FboRPyf3
  2. Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund.
    Sense id: en-bucksome-en-adj-KrH1vEoH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 95 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -some: 0 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 95 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 97 3
  3. Spirited or lively, like a buck.
    Sense id: en-bucksome-en-adj-~bk-b2-Z
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: young buck
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