bounceableadj.
/ˈbaʊnsəb(ə)l/ colloquial.
Inclined or given to bounce.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful
boastyc1300
bragc1315
boastfulc1380
great-moutheda1425
boggishc1440
avauntinga1513
windy1513
blazing1549
thrasonical1564
vauntful1590
vousty1596
braggadocian1599
self-boasting1599
braggart1604
braggartly?1611
braggadocio1615
braggeda1616
ampullous1622
rodomontado1645
vapouring1649
thrasonic1657
rodomontade1660
flounder-mouthed1663
fanfaron1670
vaunty1724
boastivea1763
Falstaffian1809
bounceable1831
jactant1839
braggadocious1853
blow-hard1855
loud-mouthed1867
flannel-mouthed1884
bull-mouthed1896
poppy-show1896
Tartarin1903
1831 S. Warren in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 961/2 He became quite ‘bouncible’, and ranted about the feat.
1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xii. 69 Beckley..as good as told the latter lady not to be ‘so bounceable’.
Derivatives
ˈbounceably adv.
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the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > [adverb]
lordlya1398
statelya1450
succudrouslyc1480
insolentlya1513
arrogantly1529
imperiously1536
rufflingly1575
stuntly1581
huffingly1611
surlily1611
swaggeringly1611
controllingly1612
surlya1616
superbly1663
dictatorially1731
huffishly1755
dictatorily1788
bounceably1838
high-handedly1867
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxviii. 138 There's no call to tell a man he is, so bounceably.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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