bouncingly

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adverb

With a bouncing motion.

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Meanings

adverbbouncingly (comparative more bouncingly, superlative most bouncingly)

comparative more bouncingly · superlative most bouncingly

  1. With a bouncing motion.
  2. obsoleteIn a bragging or boastful manner.

    Pighius said bouncingly, The judgment of the apostolick see with a council of domestick priests, is far more certain than the judgment of an universal council of the whole earth without the Pope.

    1741, Isaac Barrow, The Works of the learned Isaac Barrow, page 737

Origin

From bouncing + -ly.

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APA

bouncingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouncingly

MLA

“bouncingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouncingly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bouncingly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouncingly.

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