bouncing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊnsɪŋ

Adjective

bouncing

1. Healthy; vigorous.

   a bouncing baby girl

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (obsolete, informal) Excessively big; whopping.
   • 1621 (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:

     a bouncing reckoning

Derived terms

• bouncingly

Translations

healthy; vigorous

• Bulgarian: енергичен (bg) (energičen), силен (bg) (silen), здрав (bg) (zdrav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 健壮的

• Icelandic: hraustlegur (is), myndarlegur (is)
• Romanian: viguros (ro), robust (ro) m, plin de viață m

Verb

bouncing

1. present participle and gerund of bounce

Derived terms

• bouncing off the walls
• bouncing Betty
• bouncing bomb

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.

Derived terms

• bouncing on it

Anagrams

• buncoing