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bouncing

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ba?ns??/

Adjective

bouncing

  1. healthy; vigorous.
    a bouncing baby girl
  2. (obsolete, informal) excessively big; whopping
    • a bouncing reckoning

Translations

Verb

bouncing

  1. present participle of bounce

Derived terms

  • bouncing off the walls
  • bouncing Betty
  • bouncing bomb

Noun

bouncing (plural bouncings)

  1. The act of something that bounces.

Anagrams

  • buncoing

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pouncing

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?pa?ns??/

Verb

pouncing

  1. present participle of pounce

Noun

pouncing (plural pouncings)

  1. The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
  2. Decorative perforation of cloth.
  3. A sudden leap, as of an animal when it pounces.
    • 1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure (page 274)
      Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros []

Anagrams

  • uncoping

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