boingy
English edit
Etymology edit
boing + -y; imitative of the sound of elastic.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
boingy (comparative more boingy, superlative most boingy)
- Producing an elastic, bouncy sound, like a "boing"
- 2005, David Pogue, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual page 132[1]:
- You hear a little plink/crunch when you drop an icon onto the Trash, a boingy thud when you drag something into a folder, a whoof! when you drag something off the Dock and into the oblivion, and so on.
- 2002, Robert Corbet, Fifteen Love - Page 29:
- I would need a three-quarter-size bed, with a new mattress - one that's not so loud and boingy.