How do you, as an author, describe breasts?

[KachinaDoll]

A cup - orange
B/C cup - grapefruit
D cup - melon
Anything bigger is scary.

 

[Melody_Lightdraft2]

This from a WIP:
The pair carried on walking to their form room, Mr Masterson was stood at the door of the form room waiting, he commented.
“Shetland, Ogilvie. Less chatting and more movement.”
This Olivia took as a challenge.
“Like a bit of movement do you Sir?”
She did an exaggerated bump and grind as she walked past, arms linked under her amble chest as she did so.
“Put them away, Shetland.”
“Thought you liked big girls Sir?”
The class laughed as the pair went to sit at their usual table.
Masterson did not mind the banter, within reason. There were teachers who learned the hard way, what a runaway out of control class could inflict. Like being a room full of predators, show any weakness they would tear you apart.
What got his goat, was that Miss Olivia Shetland was not stupid. Far from it, the problem was she got easily distracted. She played to an audience, if only that temper of hers could be controlled. Take the remark about, “Big girls?” He had taken a big risk joking about her charms; she had confided once that she was a E cup, and did she need a Wonderbra? Jesus that had tested his resolve, it would be professional suicide to act on it though. He remembered when he had first encountered her, that first lesson. She had stayed behind, innocently asking about if girls should shave?
“You like shaved or unshaved, Sir?”
Sitting on a table, her skirt above her knees, legs just enough apart…. Oblivious to his snatched look, defiantly as nature intended. She even laughed at his body’s unbidden reaction with.
“My word, you do like big girls.”
With that she had left the classroom to giggle with her partner in crime Miss Ogilvie, the shy one.
After that he made a point never to be in a room alone with either of them, the perils of a teacher.

 

[crookedletter]

Because I'm so creative and want to make sure my writing encapsulates the full spectrum of diverse body types this world has to offer, I describe breasts as alternatively "big," "large," or "huge."

 

[yowser]

This from a WIP:

She did an exaggerated bump and grind as she walked past, arms linked under her amble chest as she did so.

I like the notion of an 'amble chest.'

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

From the Nerd's Plaything:

"Stepping towards him, I took his hand and placed it on my naked breast. His breath was cut short and his hand was all but still.

“Go ahead Ethan, feel it. Squeeze it a bit. Does it feel nice in your hand?”

His hand fit nearly perfectly over my full, firm, but not large breast. ‘Just the right handful size’ I was often told. They stood out well from my lean frame and filled out my skintight dresses when I wanted them to."

 

[MillieDynamite]

boobbies, tata's, tits, jugs, ittie-bittie's, bare and beautiful, more than a mouth full, less than a mouth full, perky, frim, saggy, saggers, big fat bosoms, fun bags, milk bags, whoa will ya look at them udders.

 

[cadeauxxx]

 

[EmilyMiller]

How do you, as an author, describe breasts?​

Holding Amy's hand, I stepped into the warm water and sat down, hugging my knees. She joined me, her movements as graceful as always. The bath was quite full and, with the two of us in it, the water lapped just below her breasts. I so wished I had her breasts. She was only two sizes bigger than me, but their shape looked like it had been created by a master draftsman. Flowing arcs, swelling fullness, tipped with glass-cutter nipples.

"Still checking me out, sis. It's kinda embarrassing. Here, lay back and let me wash you."

 

[Texienne]

Frankly, it depends up the POV of the narrative. I just double-checked "Pickup" and, other that mentioning that the MC has a 'tiny frame', the only way I ever even described her breasts at all was describing what was done to them during foreplay or sex. No mention of size or shape at all. She could be anywhere from a AA to presumably no bigger than a B (or we would be probably getting out of "tiny frame"" territory.)

But I do add descriptions on my male POV. Why? Because for my female POV characters, it hasn't mattered to them. It matters to some girls, but not at all to others, except if they have a complex about it. But for guys, it's important. They may like our girls in many sizes, but they like our girls. They observe them. It's less important to some than others. So while I've never had a Male MC observe his interest boobily boobing along, he certainly observes.

As for words I use?

Depends on the circumstances. In "A Discreet Distance", the fact that the roommate was driving him nuts by parading around the apartment nude was highly relevant to the story (the reasons basically ARE the story), I let my man engage in a thorough and literate description (because he's that kind of character):

She owned some real beauties too, genuine works of art, slightly uptilted with deep red areolas topping creamy skin encasing firm and ample flesh. Maybe they weren't as big as those of a centerfold, but they were for damn sure as pretty.

I don't think I would have written that paragraph in any other context. But it worked in this context.

In general though, I only describe when it fits the context. And I try to avoid pat descriptions and give something interesting to read. I confess that my other male POV story posted on Lit is a fantasy, and the ludicrously over-sexed and over-sexualized catgirl magician's familiar gets a pat her 30G-cup bosom seemed a tad overboard. These definitely extraordinarily oversized funbags are never mentioned again though, but when I did, it made sense to bring it up, and I tried to say something more interesting than just "She had 30G-cup tits".

 

[Melody_Lightdraft2]

I'll let my character Olivia answer that one, she is eighteen, last year at school.

Mum would be downstairs, in the kitchen. Olivia paused, taking the rich aroma of stew. Mum’s cooking was the best.
“Loves her food that one.” Remembering her dad’s remarks as she grew up, if only….
She undressed, dispensing of her school tie, kicked her shoes off. Next her shirt, regulation skirt, and bra, because? It gathered her breasts together, bigger was bad. Bigger got you noticed, “only bad girls get noticed,” she mumbled under her breath.

 

[Levorotatory]

She could be anywhere from a AA to presumably no bigger than a B (or we would be probably getting out of "tiny frame"" territory.)

Not necessarily. Cup sizes are relative, they give an approximate idea of proportion, not absolute size. The number (band size) is absolute, so your "tiny frame" FMC would likely be a 28 or 30, but she could be a C or D or higher if she has proportionally large breasts. An average size woman with the same size breasts would be a lower cup size. For example, a 30 D uses the same cup volume as a 36 A.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra_size

 

[Texienne]

Not necessarily. Cup sizes are relative, they give an approximate idea of proportion, not absolute size. The number (band size) is absolute, so your "tiny frame" FMC would likely be a 28 or 30, but she could be a C or D or higher if she has proportionally large breasts. An average size woman with the same size breasts would be a lower cup size. For example, a 30 D uses the same cup volume as a 36 A.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra_size

Lol, as a long-time purchaser, I know how bra sizes work, thanks. But the structure of a 30D, how it looks and reacts to motion, is very different than a 36A. They simply fill the same volume. And the way I described my MC in that story would not have fit at all with a 30D.

 

[Blake_Palafox]

I don't get detailed about it; small and high on the chest, soft and full, that kind of thing. I let the reader decide exactly how big they want to imagine them.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Big
Large
Hefty
Heavy
Saggy
Spilling over a hand
Full
Melons
Basket ball like
Nipples that can dent drywall
Puffy areola
Nipples like Rollos
I usually reserve bra size for the character to bring up.