Note 157 — III
Reading edition
[‘Buxom’ for old English buc-sum or buch-sum, i.e. ‘bow-some’, yielding, compliant, obedient. “Sara was buxom to Abraham”, 1 Pet. iii, 6 (xiv. Cent. Version, ed. Pawes, p. 216).]
Reading edition
[‘Buxom’ for old English buc-sum or buch-sum, i.e. ‘bow-some’, yielding, compliant, obedient. “Sara was buxom to Abraham”, 1 Pet. iii, 6 (xiv. Cent. Version, ed. Pawes, p. 216).]