What's the difference between buxom and zoftig?

Buxom


Definition:

  • (a.) Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
  • (a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are the early "fairy" paintings shown in London in 1841-42 – in a genre then very fashionable in which the fairy folk are of different sizes, from tiny to buxom, and dance and fly in animated crowds among vegetation that dwarfs them.
  • (2) His wishes were fulfilled as the industry prudently moved away from the sombre neo-realism of the immediate postwar years towards mildly saucy comedies and the sub-De Mille-style epics, set in antiquity with their cast of thousands of buxom Roman ladies.
  • (3) Historian Tom Booker says : "Future civilisations will look back at our news websites and think our academics were all skinny, buxom females with borderline lesbian tendencies."
  • (4) Arsène Wenger Raised the temperature by posing for photos in retro Speedos on the beach – then performed a Robin van Persie tribute header and kissed a Brazilian comedy buxom housewife character called Milonga during a game of beach volleyball.
  • (5) Except that he's barely deigning to speak, communicating his thoughts and wishes through buxom Beyonce.
  • (6) The comment piece argues that it "becomes difficult to argue the necessity of honouring 'do not publish' conventions when royals like Prince Harry are photographed cavorting naked in Vegas with buxom women".

Zoftig


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