Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bouncing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden
noise; a knock loudly.
Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift.
Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
--Dryden.
2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;
as, she bounced into the room.
Out bounced the mastiff. --Swift.
Bounced off his arm+chair. --Thackeray.
3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a.
1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
Many tall and bouncing young ladies. --Thackeray.
2. Excessive; big. ``A bouncing reckoning.'' --B. & Fl.
{Bouncing Bet} (Bot.), the common soapwort ({Saponaria
officinalis}). --Harper's Mag.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bouncing
adj 1: moving jerkily up and down; "a bouncing ball"; "a jolting
ride"; "the jouncing guns of the battery" [syn: {jolting},
{jouncing}]
2: vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby"
3: marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes";
"the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance" [syn:
{bouncy}, {peppy}, {spirited}, {zippy}]
n : rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: {bounce}]
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