curvaceous
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English
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[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From curv(e) + -aceous . Originally American English. First attested in the 1930s.
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (General American ) IPA (key): /kɚˈveɪ.ʃɪs/, /-ʃəs/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Adjective
[edit ]curvaceous (comparative more curvaceous, superlative most curvaceous)
- (of a person) Having shapely and voluptuous curves; curvy.
- 1962, M. E. Knerr, The Sex Life of the Gods[1] :
- He watched her walk, upon curvaceous legs, to the edge of the bed. For just a second, she smiled down at him.
- 2023 May 13, Kitty Drake, "This is how we do it: ‘A tired, throwaway midweek shag doesn’t interest me’", in The Guardian[2] , →ISSN:
- Anya is tall, gorgeous and curvaceous, all of which I enjoy sexually, especially the curvaceous part: I enjoy squeezing and grabbing all the sexy, abundant parts of her body.
Synonyms
[edit ]Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]having shapely or sensual curves
- Chinese:
- Danish: yppig
- Esperanto: abunda (eo)
- Finnish: kurvikas (fi)
- French: plantureux (fr) , pulpeux (fr) m, bien roulé m (colloquial)
- German: kurvenreich (de) , kurvig (de)
- Hebrew: חטובה f (khat'uva)
- Hungarian: formás (hu) , fullos (slang)
- Icelandic: þrýstinn
- Interlingua: curvace
- Irish: dea-chumtha
- Italian: formoso (it) m, tutta curve f
- Japanese: 肉感的な (ja) (にっかんてきな, nikkanteki-na), 豊満な (ja) (ほうまんな, hōman-na)
- Norwegian:
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: фигу́ристый (ru) (figúristyj), пы́шный (ru) (pýšnyj), с краси́выми окру́глыми фо́рмами (s krasívymi okrúglymi fórmami)
- Swedish: kurvig (sv) , yppig (sv)
Further reading
[edit ]- "curvaceous", in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- "curvaceous", in Google Books Ngram Viewer .