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bouncingly

bouncingly adverb: with a bouncing motion.

Adverb

bouncingly (comparative more bouncingly, superlative most bouncingly)

  1. With a bouncing motion.
  2. (obsolete) In a bragging or boastful manner.
    • Pighius said bouncingly, The judgment of the apostolick see with a council of domestick priests, is far more certain than the judgment of an universal council of the whole earth without the Pope.1741, Isaac Barrow, The Works of the learned Isaac Barrow, page 737

Forms of bouncingly

comparativemore bouncingly
superlativemost bouncingly

Origin of bouncingly

From bouncing + -ly.

Questions about bouncingly

What does bouncingly mean?
Bouncingly means with a bouncing motion.
What part of speech is bouncingly?
Bouncingly is an adverb.

Words near bouncingly in the dictionary

  1. bouncing off
  2. bouncing off the walls
  3. bouncing on it
  4. bouncing rubble
  5. bouncing the rubble
  6. bouncingly
  7. bouncings
  8. bouncy
  9. bouncy ball
  10. bouncy balls
  11. bouncy castle

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