Meanings
comparative more boingy · superlative most boingy
- 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 291 more example
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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