bouncing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bouncing	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for bouncing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bouncing adj vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby" marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance" Synonym(s): bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy n rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: bounce, bouncing]
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. [bd]A bouncing reckoning.[b8] --B. & Fl. {Bouncing Bet} (Bot.), the common soapwort ({Saponaria officinalis}). --Harper's Mag.
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.]