bazoom
English edit
Etymology edit
A variant of bosom, influenced by zoom. Originally North American. Attested since the 1950s.
Noun edit
bazoom (plural bazooms)
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) female breast; bazonga
- 1956, Norman Mailer, The Man Who Studied Yoga:
- “Which girl was it now?” he asks a second time. ¶ “Oh, you know, the hysteric,” Eleanor says, “the one who was parading her bazooms in your face.”
References edit
- Gold, David (2009) Studies in Etymology and Etiology, →ISBN, pages 87-90