bouncing
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/
Adjective

bouncing

  1. healthy; vigorous.
    a bouncing baby girl
  2. (obsolete, informal) excessively big; whopping
    • (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Wild Goose Chase”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 1, scene 2:
      a bouncing reckoning
Verb
  1. present participle of bounce#English|bounce
Noun

bouncing (plural bouncings)

  1. The act of something that bounces.



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