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

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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

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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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