Definitions
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- adjective Having
curves - adjective
buxom orcurvaceous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having curves
- adjective (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
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Examples
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I don't understand why the word curvy has caused so much controversy, and i dnt understand why there is so much prejudice against big people. i know many women who could be described as curvy and they look damn good!
Feeling curvy? Or just fat? Ms Robinson 2009
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Its hard for healthy normal woman to call themselves curvy because when a person thinks of the word curvy they see an obese women.
Feeling curvy? Or just fat? Ms Robinson 2009
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Famously curvy translates to zaftig in pop-culture speak.
Scattered thoughts about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2005
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The model, who describing as curvy would do justice to neither her nor the word "curvy", has said that if her native land, Paraguay, wins the World Cup ...
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I like them a bit more 'curvy' - so Indy is a better pass for me -
Lincoln vs Cadillac 2009
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i don't think that the word curvy is being used as a euphenism for fat, so you can eradicate that thought from your narrow minds right now, and even if it was, so what?
Feeling curvy? Or just fat? Ms Robinson 2009
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The doll’s packaging skirted the word altogether, relying instead on the euphemistic and discreet term curvy.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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The doll’s packaging skirted the word altogether, relying instead on the euphemistic and discreet term curvy.
The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999
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When a woman is described as curvy, Ms R automatically thinks of someone with a bust and hips, as opposed to say the boyish athletic type or the skinny, bony type.
Feeling curvy? Or just fat? Ms Robinson 2009
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When a woman is described as curvy, Ms R automatically thinks of someone with a bust and hips, as opposed to say the boyish athletic type or the skinny, bony type.
Archive 2009-02-01 Ms Robinson 2009
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