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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#m1)

2) Bouncy describes a person or animal who is lively, cheerful and full of energy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#m2)

3) Bouncy hair is full and springy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#x1)
- This rubber ball is really bouncy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#x2)
- The puppy is bouncy and happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#x3)
- Which ball is the bounciest? Let's measure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#x4)
- The car ride was bouncy on the bumpy road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#x5)
- She was in a bouncy mood after winning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/9/)
- [A bouncy ball squashes and springs back, while clay squashes and stays squashed, warming a little.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bouncy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bouncy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.