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▪ I. bouncing, vbl. n.|ˈbaʊnsɪŋ|
[f. bounce v.]
1. Striking, knocking, banging, thumping.
1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 59 With rip rap bouncing thee ram to the chapter is hurled. 1589Nashe Almond for P. 13 a, Hauing worn out three or four pulpits with the vnreasonable bounsing of his fists. 1870L'Estrange Miss Mitford I. vi. 176 A noise of shouting, knocking, and bouncing.
†2. The making of loud, explosive noise; banging.
1598Barret Theor. Warres v. v. 167 To heare the bouncing of the Cannon. 1652J. Wordsworth tr. Sandeval 327 Great clamors of men and bouncing of guns.
3. Bragging, blustering; boastful exaggeration, lying; colloq. a good scolding.
1634Heywood Witches Lanc. iv. Wks. 1874 iv. 29, I doe not like the bouncing of good Offices. 1687T. Brown Saints in Up. Wks. 1730 I. 72 Calling of names and giving the lie..swaggering and bouncing. 1773Johnson in Boswell II. 68 Nothing can be poorer than his mode of writing: it is the mere bouncing of a schoolboy. 1885Young Two Sides of Sh. iv, A great protection against bouncing and rudeness.
4. A sudden bounding movement.
1611Cotgr., Balotade, a bounding, or bounsing, as, of a football, or high going horse. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. x. 52 A rocking of the earth to and fro, and sometimes a perpendicular bouncing..of the same.
5. Firework-manuf. (See quot.)
1888W. H. Browne Firework Making 15 Furnishing the squib with its report is called bouncing. Ibid. 43 Bouncing, or giving to the saucisson its report.
6. Comb. bouncing-pin, an apparatus for measuring ‘knocking’ in an internal combustion engine; also attrib.
1930Engineering 10 Jan. 44/1 This sleeve..carries a bouncing-pin mechanism. 1934Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVIII. 354 Instructions for setting of the bouncing-pin contacts. Ibid., Then remove the diaphragm and bouncing pin.
▸ bouncing castle n. chiefly Brit. = bouncy castle n. at bouncy adj. Additions.
1988Today 20 Aug. 21/6 Barbecues are held outside and on the first weekend in July there is a Friday-to-Sunday festival with bands, a children's *bouncing castle, pony rides and two dozen real ales. 2000Kerryman (County Kerry) 8 Sept. 21/8 Bouncing castles for hire. Large selection suitable for Parties, Birthdays, Summer Camps, Fun Days, Corporate Events... Complete with rain cover.
▪ II. ˈbouncing, ppl. a.
[f. bounce v. + -ing2.]
That bounces: in various senses of the verb relating alike to loudness, brag, and vigorous or ungainly movement. Often also (like ‘thumping, whacking, whopping, strapping’, and other words meaning vigorous striking) used with the sense of ‘big’, esp. ‘big rather than elegant or graceful’. bouncing putty: a soft elastic silicone polymer (see quot. 1950).
(In many of the quotations the exact shade of meaning is doubtful.)
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 61, I saw the bouncing Bellibone. 1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 34 Can they not be satisfied with the blessing of this braue bounsing priest? 1602Return from Parnass. iv. i. (Arb.) 50, I am well prouided of three bounsing wenches. 1606J. Raynolds Dolarny's Prim. (1880) 97 The bounsing Doa, vnto the brakes did come. 1611Coryat's Crudities Pref. Verses, Oh for a bonny blith and bounsing ballet To praise this Odcomb'd Chanticleere. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) 363 His mother..lay down her burthen at Elmeby..where this bouncing babe Bonner was born. 1736H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 8 A bouncing head of, I believe, Cleopatra. 1743Mrs. Delany Autobiog. & Corr. (1861) II. 237 [She] is as bouncing as ever, and as loud. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. 111, I never saw such a bouncing swaggering puppy since I was born. 1807T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 101 The bouncing letter he published, and the insolent one he wrote to me. 1813Waugh Let. in Mem. v. (1839) 310 An inexperienced, bouncing but well-disposed young woman. 1837J. D. Lang New S. Wales II. 378 It has even given birth to a school of oratory in the colony—the bouncing school, it may be styled. 1841Mrs. Mozley Fairy Bower iv, She was..bold Belle, and bouncing Belle, and every thing but bonny Belle. 1847Barham Ingol. Leg., St. Cuthb., Stephen de Hoaques..had told all the party a great bouncing lie. 1944J. G. E. Wright U.S. Patent 2,541,851 (1951), Novel compositions which because of their unusual properties may best be described as ‘bouncing putties’. 1950Jrnl. Brit. Interplan. Soc. IX. 56 Another contribution by General Electric is ‘bouncing putty’, a viscous and highly resilient silicon material previously used as a core for golf balls. The idea is that certain delicate equipment is buried in the material and shocks thereby distributed evenly over the entire surface of the instruments.
Hence ˈbouncingly adv., boastfully, blusteringly.
a1677Barrow Pope's Suprem. (L.) Pighius said, bouncingly, the judgement of the apostolical see..is far more certain. |