[f. BOUNCE v.]
1. Striking, knocking, banging, thumping.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 59. With rip rap bouncing thee ram to the chapter is hurled.
1589. Nashe, Almond for P., 13 a. Hauing worn out three or four pulpits with the vnreasonable bounsing of his fists.
1870. L’Estrange, Miss Mitford, I. vi. 176. A noise of shouting, knocking, and bouncing.
† 2. The making of loud, explosive noise; banging.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, V. v. 167. To heare the bouncing of the Cannon.
1652. J. Wordsworth, trans. Sandoval’s Civ. Wars Spain, 327. Hee gave them a brisk assault, with great clamors of men, and bouncing of Guns.
3. Bragging, blustering; boastful exaggeration, lying; colloq. a good scolding.
1634. Heywood, Witches Lanc., IV. Wks. 1874, IV. 29. I doe not like the bouncing of good Offices.
1687. T. Brown, Saints in Uproar, Wks. 1730, I. 72. Calling of names and giving the lie … swaggering and bouncing.
1773. Johnson, in Boswell, II. 68. Nothing can be poorer than his mode of writing: it is the mere bouncing of a schoolboy.
1885. Young, Two Sides of Sh., iv. A great protection against bouncing and rudeness.
4. A sudden bounding movement.
1611. Cotgr., Balotade, a bounding, or bounsing, as, of a football, or high going horse.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. x. 52. A rocking of the earth to and fro, and sometimes a perpendicular bouncing … of the same.
