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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishbosom,bosum, fromOld Englishbōsm, fromProto-West Germanic*bōsm, fromProto-Germanic*bōsmaz, fromProto-Indo-European*bʰewH-(“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate withSaterland FrisianBossem,Bousem(“bosom”),West Frisianboezem(“bosom”),Dutchboezem(“bosom”),GermanBusen(“bosom”). Related also toAlbanianbuzë(“lip”),Greekβυζί(vyzí,“breast”),Romanianbuză(“lip”),Irishbus(“lip”), andLatinbucca(“cheek”).

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Noun

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bosom (pluralbosoms)

  1. (anatomy, somewhat dated) Thebreast orchest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).[from 11thc.]
    • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter I, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of herbosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  2. The seat of one's innerthoughts,feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings;desire.[from 13thc.]
    • 1844 January–December,W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray,“The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1856,→OCLC:
      my poor dear duke […], in consequence of the excitement created in his augustbosom by her frantic violence and grief, had a fit in which I very nigh lost him.
    • 1932,Maurice Baring, chapter 16, inFriday's Business:
      His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal,[…]to cleanse hisbosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.
  3. Theprotectedinterior orinner part of something; the areaenclosed as by anembrace.[from 15thc.]
  4. The part of adress etc. covering the chest; aneckline.
  5. Abreast, one of a woman's breasts
    • 1833, E.K. Avery, B.F. Hallet,Trial of Rev. Mr. Avery, Boston, page140:
      I dont [sic] know that herbosoms were fuller than usual.
    • 2003 April 7, Martin Kelner,The Guardian:
      The prevailing look at Aintree was of a well-upholstered woman wearing an outfit about three sizes too small for her; trouser suits so tight you could not only tell if the lady had a coin in her pocket but see if it was heads or tails, and skimpy tops proclaiming proudly thatbosoms are back—and this time it's personal.
    • 2009, Emma Smith,The Great Western Beach, A&C Black,→ISBN, page241:
      The baby was crammed against one of herbosoms. He was meant to be sucking milk out of it. The otherbosom was hanging down, with a funny long red blob on the end.
  6. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
    • 1711,Joseph Addison,The Spectator‎[1], number26:
      I observed, indeed, that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains ofBlenheim, or in thebosom of the ocean.
    • 1864, George MacDonald,The Old Nurse's Story:
      The appointed place was on the edge of a deep, rocky ravine, down in whose darkbosom brawled and foamed a little mountain torrent.
  7. Adepression round theeye of amillstone.
    • 1884, Edward Henry Knight,Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary‎[2], page123:
      Thebosom of the mill-stone is a central depression, and the staff is adjustable to test the symmetry of the concavity.

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Translations

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chest, breast
seat of one's inner thoughts
protected inner part
part of a dress etc. covering the chest; neckline
woman's breast(s)
any thing or place resembling the breast
depression round the eye of a millstone
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Adjective

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bosom (notcomparable)

  1. In a verycloserelationship.
    bosombuddies
    • 1908 September 18, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, inNew York Times, Describing the death ofThomas Etholen Selfridge, first airplane fatality in history:
      Lieut. Creecy of the navy, who has been detailed to the aerial experiments at the fort, and who was abosom companion of young Selfridge, was brokenhearted.

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in a very close relationship
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Verb

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bosom (third-person singular simple presentbosoms,present participlebosoming,simple past and past participlebosomed)

  1. To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; tocherish.
  2. To conceal; to hide from view; toembosom.
    • 1741,Alexander Pope,The New Dunciad: As it was Found in the Year 1741‎[4], Dublin: George Faulkner, published1742,Book IV, p 29, lines 291-292:
      To happy Conventsbosom’d deep in Vines,
      Where slumber Abbots, purple as their Wines;
    • 1818, Lucy Aikin,Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth‎[5]:
      Those whom you feared most are nowbosoming themselves in the queen's grace; and though her highness signified displeasure in outward sort, yet did she like the marrow of your book.
    • 1901, Stewart Edward White,The Claim Jumpers‎[6]:
      Beyond were the pines, and a rugged road, flint-edged, full of dips and rises, turns and twists, hovering on edges, orbosoming itself in deep rock-strewn cuts.
  3. (intransitive) Tobelly; tobillow,swell orbulge.
    • 1869, Allan Hume, “My first Nests of Bonelli’s Eagle”, inThe Ibis‎[7], Series 2, Volume 5, p. 145:
      Just above the recess the cliffbosomed out with a full swell for some two or three feet, effectually preventing any one’s looking down into the nest from above[…]
    • 1905, Alex Macdonald,In Search of El Dorado, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Part II, “The Five-Mile Rush,” p. 92,[8]
      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) Tobelly; to cause tobillow,swell orbulge.
    • 1822,James Hogg,The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 3, Chapter 12, pp. 440-441,[9]
      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 wasbosomed out like the side of a Highland mountain.
    • 1855, The Scald [pseudonym of George Smellie], “Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay” inThe Sea: Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, and Other Poems, London: Hope & Co., p. 45,[10]
      Thus one by one they mount, and spreading wide,
      The transverse wings extend on either side,
      And, lightlybosomed by the gentle gale,
      She seems a moving pyramid of ail.

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishbōsm, fromProto-West Germanic*bōsm, fromProto-Germanic*bōsmaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbozum/,/ˈboːzum/,/-zəm/

Noun

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bosom (pluralbosomez)

  1. Theenclosure formed by the breast and arms,embrace

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