bouncy

«bouncy» in Mova's school dictionary: Bouncy describes something that bounces well, like a ball… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (bouncy, bouncier, bounciest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Bouncy describes something that bounces well, like a ball or a trampoline. tree →

2) Bouncy describes a person or animal who is lively, cheerful and full of energy. tree →

3) Bouncy hair is full and springy. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: a bouncy castle at a party, a bouncy ball, a bouncy puppy. In science, pupils test which balls are bounciest (a fair test: drop from the same height, measure the bounce). Safety: take turns on bouncy castles and trampolines, and take shoes off.

examples

• We jumped on the bouncy castle at the fair. tree →
• This rubber ball is really bouncy. tree →
• The puppy is bouncy and happy. tree →
• Which ball is the bounciest? Let's measure. tree →
• The car ride was bouncy on the bumpy road. tree →
• She was in a bouncy mood after winning. tree →

note

Comparative: bouncier, bounciest (y → i). From «bounce». In the UK the inflatable toy is a «bouncy castle»; in the US «bounce house».

In the corpora

• A limerick is a funny five-line poem with the rhyme pattern AABBA and a bouncy rhythm.
• A bouncy ball squashes and springs back, while clay squashes and stays squashed, warming a little.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bouncy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.