boingy

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/ˈbɔɪŋˌɡiː/

adjective

Producing an elastic, bouncy sound, like a "boing"

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveboingy (comparative more boingy, superlative most boingy)

comparative more boingy · superlative most boingy

  1. Producing an elastic, bouncy sound, like a "boing"

    I would need a three-quarter-size bed, with a new mattress - one that's not so loud and boingy.

    2002, Robert Corbet, Fifteen Love - Page 29
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    You hear a little plink/crunch when you drop an icon onto the Trash, a boingy thud when you drag something into a folder, a whoof! when you drag something off the Dock and into the oblivion, and so on.

    2005, David Pogue, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual page 132

Origin

From boing + -y; imitative of the sound of elastic.

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Chicago

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