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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
active, activist, activistic, alive, animated, beefy, bouncy, bounding, breezy, brisk, bubbly, chipper, doughty, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, full-blooded, full-strength, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, hefty, hopping, husky, iron-hard, jumping, leaping, live, lively, lusty, mercurial, mighty, militant, nervy, obstinate, peppy, perky, pert, potent, powerful, prancing, puissant, quicksilver, rebounding, recalcitrant, recoiling, red-blooded, repercussive, resilient, robust, robustious, robustuous, rude, rugged, saltant, saltatorial, saltatory, skipping, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, springing, spry, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zingy
Dictionary Results for bouncing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bouncing
    adj 1: vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby"
    2: marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes";
       "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance" [syn:
       bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy]
    n 1: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn:
         bounce, bouncing]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a.
   1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
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            Many tall and bouncing young ladies.  --Thackeray.
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   2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." --B. & Fl.
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   Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria
      officinalis). --Harper's Mag.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bounce \Bounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bounced; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Bouncing.] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce,
   bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative
   origin.]
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   1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden
      noise; a knock loudly.
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            Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift.
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            Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;
      as, she bounced into the room.
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            Out bounced the mastiff.              --Swift.
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            Bounced off his arm+chair.            --Thackeray.
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   3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
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