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bouncing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/
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Meanings

1. Healthy; vigorous.
   • 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:
   • a bouncing baby girl
2. (informal, obsolete) Excessively big; whopping.
   • a bouncing reckoning 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:

Deriveds

bouncingly

Translations (9)

cmn 健壮的 (healthy; vigorous) · bg силен (healthy; vigorous) · bg енергичен (healthy; vigorous) · ro viguros (healthy; vigorous) · ro robust (healthy; vigorous) · is myndarlegur (healthy; vigorous) · is hraustlegur (healthy; vigorous) · ro plin de viață (healthy; vigorous) · bg здрав (healthy; vigorous)

bouncing en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/
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Meanings

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:

Forms

Deriveds

bouncing on it

bouncing en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/
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Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of bounce
   form of bounce

Deriveds

bouncing off the walls · bouncing Betty · bouncing bomb