springy

Etymology

spring + -y

adj

1. That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after being bent, compressed, stretched, etc.
   The soft peat was springy under her feet.
   The hard woods were used for pegging, the soft woods for cradling the load and the springy woods for carrying it. 2013, Eric Sloane, Weather Almanac, page 48
   What returning director Genndy Tartakovsky reveres is animation—and not necessarily the wonders of photorealistic follicle creation or impeccably rendered water, but the kind of gloriously exaggerated movement, the stretchy and springy caricature, that enlivens many classic cartoons. July 10, 2018, Jesse Hassenger, “Improbably but amusingly, Hotel Transylvania 3 notches a series best”, in The Onion AV Club
2. Lively; bouncy.
   Every step—a light click of the heel and then a springy step, optimistic, perhaps a bit contemptuous. 2005, Adam Zachary Newton, The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance, page 270
3. Characteristic of the spring season.
   It was springy weather after Easter, and she wore a pale lavender silk dress with myriad little ruchings down the front, each edged with a narrow band of real lace. 1947, Gulielma Fell Alsop, Deer Creek: The Story of a Golden Childhood, page 276
   We had a blizzard, a thaw, a spell of springy weather, and James baked me a heart-shaped white clam pizza for Valentine's Day. 2014, Kitty Burns Florey, Vigil for a Stranger
   After our few brief days of springy weather it surely is a sudden change. 2015, Marian Baldwin, Canteening Overseas 1917-1919
4. Of land, having many springs (of water).