Busty

Part of speech: adjective

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌsti/

Definitions

1. Characterizing a woman with an ample chest volume
2. Describing a female figure with a noticeably full chest area
3. Referring to women who have prominent or well-developed breasts

Etymology: "Busty" is a plain formation: the noun "bust," meaning the breast or the upper front of the body, with the suffix "-y," which turns a noun into an adjective meaning "having a lot of" or "characterised by" that noun. So "busty" means having a prominent bust. The noun "bust" has a longer journey. It was borrowed into English from French "buste," which came from Italian "busto," meaning the torso or upper body. Italian in turn traces back to Latin "būstum," a word for a funeral pyre or tomb, which is an unexpected origin for a word now used for the human chest. The sculptural sense, a head-and-shoulders portrait, came from the same Italian source, and the anatomical sense of the torso followed.

Synonyms: curvaceous, voluptuous, shapely, ample, full-figured

Antonyms: flat-chested, slender, skinny