Bounce | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Bounce, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. BOUNCED (bounst); p. pr. & vb. n. BOUNCING.] [D. bonzen, to strike, throw, bounce, bons, blow, shock, bounce, L. Ger. bunsen, to knock or fall with a hollow noise, H. Ger. bumsen, to thump or fall upon something with a hollow noise, bums, interj. bounce! L. Lat. bombizāre, bumbisāre, to crackle, from Lat. bombus, Gr. βόμβος, a hollow, deep sound. See BOMB.]

Sense 1. To leap or spring suddenly. “Out bounced the mastiff.” Swift. “Bounced off his arm-chair.” Thackeray.

Sense 2. To beat or thump, so as to make a sudden noise.

Another bounced as hard as he could knock. Swift.

Sense 3. To boast or bully. [Colloq.] Johnson.

Sense 4. To be bold or strong. Shak.

Bounce, v. t.

verbtransitive

To drive against any thing suddenly and violently. He bounced his head at every post. Swift.

Bounce, n.

noun

Sense 1. A sudden leap or bound.

Sense 2. A heavy, sudden blow or thump.

The bounce burst open the door. Druden.

This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed. Gay.

Sense 3. A boast; a threat. [Low.] Johnson.

Sense 4. A bold lie; as, that was a bounce. Goldsmith.