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Webster 1913 Edition

Bouncing

Boun′cing

,
Adj.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bouncing

BOUN'CING

,
ppr.
Leaping; bounding with violence, as a heavy body; springing out; thumping with a loud noise; boasting; moving with force, as a heavy bounding body.

BOUN'CING

,
Adj.
Stout; strong; large and heavy; a customary sense in the United States; as a bouncing lass.

Definition 2024

bouncing

bouncing

English

Adjective

bouncing

  1. healthy; vigorous.
    a bouncing baby girl
    • Thackeray
      many tall and bouncing young ladies
  2. (obsolete) excessive; big
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      a bouncing reckoning

Translations

Verb

bouncing

  1. present participle of bounce

Derived terms

Noun

bouncing ‎(plural bouncings)

  1. The act of something that bounces.
    • 1997, Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism
      […] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings.

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/

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