'Bouncing' definitions:

Definition of 'bouncing'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby"
adjective
Marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance" [syn: bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy]
noun
Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: bounce, bouncing]

Definition of 'Bouncing'

From: GCIDE
  • Bounce \Bounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Bouncing.] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. [1913 Webster]
  • Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. [1913 Webster]
  • Out bounced the mastiff. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • Bounced off his arm+chair. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bouncing'

From: GCIDE
  • Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a.
  • 1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. [1913 Webster]
  • Many tall and bouncing young ladies. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." --B. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort ({Saponaria officinalis}). --Harper's Mag. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'bouncing'

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