bosom

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noun

Plural noun:

bosomsbosome

1.
(dated)(anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
2.
The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
3.
The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
4.
The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
5.
A breast, one of a woman's breasts
6.
Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
7.
A depression round the eye of a millstone.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

bosome

1.
(not comparable)In a very close relationship.
bosom buddies

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verb

V_es/s

bosoms

V_ing/Gerund

bosoming

V_ed/pp

bosomedbosome

1.
To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
2.
To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
3.
(intransitive)To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
1905, Alex Macdonald, In Search of El Dorado, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Part II, “The Five-Mile Rush,” p. 92, What Stewart called a “langtailie coat” spread out behind him like streamers in a breeze, a “biled” collar had, in the same gentleman’s terse language, “burst its moorings” and projected in two miniature wings at the back of his ears, and a shirt that had once been white, bosomed out expansively through an open vest.
4.
(transitive)To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.
1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 3, Chapter 12, pp. 440-441, I looked again, and though I was sensible it must be a delusion brought on by the stroke of his powerful rod, yet I did see the appearance of a glorious fleet of ships coming bounding along the surface of the firmament of air, while every mainsail was bosomed out like the side of a Highland mountain.
1855, The Scald [pseudonym of George Smellie], “Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay” in The Sea: Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, and Other Poems, London: Hope & Co., p. 45, Thus one by one they mount, and spreading wide, The transverse wings extend on either side, And, lightly bosomed by the gentle gale, She seems a moving pyramid of ail.

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ine-pro From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (to swell, bend, curve). Cognate with Bossem, Bousem (bosom), boezem, boezem, Busen. Related also to buzë, βυζί, buză, bus, and bucca.