bouncing
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bouncing
- 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.
- (obsolete, informal) Excessively big; whopping.
- 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:
- a bouncing reckoning
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healthy; vigorous
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bouncing
- present participle and gerund of bounce
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bouncing (plural bouncings)
- 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.