bouncing

Etymology

adj

1. Healthy; vigorous.
   a bouncing baby girl
   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. (obsolete, informal) Excessively big; whopping.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of bounce

noun

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