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Healthy; vigorous. quotations examples
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
(obsolete, informal) Excessively big; whopping. quotations
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, Act I, scene ii
present participle and gerund of bounce examples
plural bouncings
The act of something that bounces. quotations examples
[…] 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