bouncing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/

Adjective

bouncing

1. healthy; vigorous.

   a bouncing baby girl

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:

     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
   • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     a bouncing reckoning

Translations

healthy; vigorous

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

  Mandarin: 健壮的

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

Verb

bouncing

1. present participle of bounce

Derived terms

• bouncing off the walls

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.

Anagrams

• buncoing