Crossword clues for bouncing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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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.
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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. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a.
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Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
Many tall and bouncing young ladies.
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Excessive; big. ``A bouncing reckoning.''
--B. & Fl.Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort ( Saponaria officinalis).
--Harper's Mag.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"vigorous, big," 1570s, present participle adjective from bounce (v.).
Wiktionary
1 healthy; vigorous. 2 (context obsolete English) excessive; big n. The act of something that bounces. v
(present participle of bounce English)
WordNet
n. rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: bounce]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "bouncing".
A stone from a mangonel, bouncing from the armored fighting castle at the bow, slammed through the deck and hull, opening the galleass to the sea as she came within a dozen lengths of the gates.
Bunsome saw the Montagne staring indifferently through a side port, seemingly unbothered by the dust, noise and bouncing.
And add to that the fact that until she disappeared into one of the bedrooms with the Breed doctor, Elyiana Morrey, she had been bouncing around like a Mexican jumping bean.
I had the sloppiest of the three landings, bouncing high, dropping almost straight down, twisting my ankle on the small stones, and going to my knees while the parawing struck hard on a boulder above me, bending metal and rending fabric.
Rogo and I had worked up a game involving our polywater bed, which he loved bouncing around on, especially when it was rolling like surf.
All sorts of delightful rumors were bouncing around the scuttlebutt circuit.
There were rumors bouncing around headquarters that Slattery had provided confidential intelligence to Mafia soldiers.
Fifteen minutes later he reached the Spenser turnoff and eased off onto the rutted mountain lane, bouncing along through a thin layer of rotting vegetation and freshly fallen leaves.
The spright slid from her shoulder and she felt him bouncing on her back as he gripped her hair.
Digit Span subtest, he began bouncing up and down and finally out of his chair.
Tommy and Shiri were bouncing on the trampoline, making smart-aleck remarks.
For one awful instant they were suspended above disaster, the keel of the boat riding the force of the torrent like a reversed magnet, unloosed, unmoored, out of control, the sharp spray in their faces, Henry shouting out encouragement to the straining motors, grinning Jalong in the bow with a plastic bucket bailing like mad, the bouncing Copelands trying not to glance too often at one another with the blanched appeal of stricken airline passengers, the fragile longboat, as if responding to psychic entreaty, moved forward an inch, another inch, then, in one sweet dizzying lift, rose up and over the crest of the falls onto a slick moving sheet of unruffled stream, and they looked around at themselves and they laughed.
I had a nice chat with Whipper Will and Bingo about their chances of stopping Max Toodemax from bouncing them.
The slugs chopped into steel-threaded rubber and armored supports, cutting free the middle tire and sending it bouncing over the smooth rolls of Agave Dales.
After bouncing around the Midwest he had settled in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he worked doing brake jobs for Pep Boys.