Bouncing

bouncing
    adj 1: vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby"
    2: marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes";
       "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance" [syn:
       {bouncing}, {bouncy}, {peppy}, {spirited}, {zippy}]
    n 1: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn:
         {bounce}, {bouncing}]
    

Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a.
   1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
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            Many tall and bouncing young ladies.  --Thackeray.
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   2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." --B. & Fl.
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   {Bouncing Bet} (Bot.), the common soapwort ({Saponaria
      officinalis}). --Harper's Mag.
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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.]
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   1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden
      noise; a knock loudly.
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            Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift.
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            Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;
      as, she bounced into the room.
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            Out bounced the mastiff.              --Swift.
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            Bounced off his arm+chair.            --Thackeray.
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   3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
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91 Moby Thesaurus words for "bouncing":
      active, activist, activistic, alive, animated, beefy, bouncy,
      bounding, breezy, brisk, bubbly, chipper, doughty, ebullient,
      effervescent, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, frisky,
      full of go, full of life, full of pep, full-blooded, full-strength,
      gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy,
      hearty, hefty, hopping, husky, iron-hard, jumping, leaping, live,
      lively, lusty, mercurial, mighty, militant, nervy, obstinate,
      peppy, perky, pert, potent, powerful, prancing, puissant,
      quicksilver, rebounding, recalcitrant, recoiling, red-blooded,
      repercussive, resilient, robust, robustious, robustuous, rude,
      rugged, saltant, saltatorial, saltatory, skipping, smacking,
      snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, springing, spry, stalwart,
      steely, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy,
      strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, vigorous, vital,
      vivacious, zingy