bouncing

adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue

//ˈbaʊnsɪŋ//

Healthy; vigorous.

adjective

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.
2
informalExcessively big; whopping.
a bouncing reckoning

verb

1
Also a form of bouncepresent participle and gerund of bounce

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.

Forms

plural: bouncings

bounce · To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.bounced · Of a cheque/check: refused by a bank because of insufficient…bouncer · A person or thing that bounces something, such as a ball.

bouncing · Healthy; vigorous.

bouncy · Easily bounced.bound · Obliged (to).Bound · A surname.

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