bouncingly

English

Etymology

From bouncing +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

bouncingly (comparative more bouncingly, superlative most bouncingly)

  1. With a bouncing motion.
  2. (obsolete) In a bragging or boastful manner.
    • 1741, Isaac Barrow, The Works of the learned Isaac Barrow, page 737:
      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.
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