bouncing

Healthy; vigorous.

Adjective

  1. Healthy; vigorous.
    • a bouncing baby girl
    • 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. - 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:
  2. Excessively big; whopping.
    • a bouncing reckoning - 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,...

Derived

bouncingly

Noun

  1. The act of something that bounces.
    • […] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings. - 1997, Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism:

Forms

bouncings

Derived

bouncing on it

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bounce

Derived

bouncing off the walls bouncing Betty bouncing bomb