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BOUNCING
bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy
(adjective) marked by lively action; “a bouncing gait”; “bouncy tunes”; “the peppy and interesting talk”; “a spirited dance”
bouncing
(adjective) vigorously healthy; “a bouncing baby”
bounce, bouncing
(noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
bouncing
healthy; vigorous.
(obsolete, informal) excessively big; whopping
Verb
bouncing
present participle of bounce
Noun
bouncing (plural bouncings)
The act of something that bounces.
Anagrams
• buncoing
Source: Wiktionary
Boun"cing, a.
1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.
2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.
BOUNCE
Bounce, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Bouncing.] Etym: [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin.]
1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden.
2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray.
3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
Bounce, v. t.
1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. Swift.
2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]
4. To bully; to scold. [Collog.] J. Fletcher.
Bounce, n.
1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. The bounce burst open the door. Dryden.
3. An explosion, or the noise of one. [Obs.]
4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
Bounce, adv.
Definition: With a sudden leap; suddenly. This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. Bickerstaff.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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