bouncing /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/adjective 2noun 1forms 1 adjective2 •Healthy; vigorous.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 •(informal, no longer used) Excessively big; whopping. noun1 •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 formsbouncings