bouncing

adj, noun — 3 senses

bouncing

adj

/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/

1

Healthy; vigorous.

a bouncing baby girl
By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:

2

Informal, Obsolete Excessively big; whopping.

a bouncing reckoning1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:

Derived terms: bouncingly

bouncing

noun

1

The act of something that bounces.

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

Derived terms: bouncing on it

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