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bounce verb. ME.
[Origin uncertain: perh. from Low Dutch (cf. Low German bunsen beat, thump, Dutch bons a thump), or of independent imit. origin.]
I. verb trans. Beat, thump; slam (a door etc.). ME-E19.
verb intrans. Make an explosive or banging noise; knock loudly at a door etc. (Cf. earlier BOUNCE interjection 1.) M16-E18.
verb trans. & intrans. Talk big, bluster (at); hector; swagger; hustle by bluff etc. into or out of something. E17.
b. Blurt out; come out with. M17.
II. Of movement.
a. verb intrans. & trans. with it. Move boundingly; rebound (as a ball). E16.
b. verb intrans. Come or go in, into, out, etc., energetically or noisily; move about vigorously or unceremoniously; jump up. L17.
c. verb intrans. Of a cheque: be returned by a bank when there are no funds to meet it. E20.
verb trans. Cause to rebound (as a ball); present (a cheque) which has to be returned by the bank (see sense 4c above). L19.
b. Cricket. Bowl a bouncer or bouncers at (a batsman). M20.
verb trans. Eject summarily; dismiss, sack. colloq. (orig. US). L19.
bouncing adjective that bounces; boisterous; big of its kind, (of a baby) big and healthy;
bouncing Bet, the soapwort Saponaria officinalis; bouncing castle: see CASTLE noun1 1b: E16.
bouncingly adverb E16.