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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.

Many tall and

bouncing

young ladies.

Thackeray.

Excessive; big.

“A bouncing reckoning.”

B. & Fl.

Bouncing Bet

(Bot.)

the common soapwort (

Saponaria officinalis

Harper’s Mag.

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.

Adj.

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