bouncing

1. Healthy; vigorous.

   a bouncing baby girl

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   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

2. informalobsoleteExcessively big; whopping.

   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, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bounce

plural bouncings

1. The act of something that bounces.

   […] 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