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English
Etymology
From bounce + -able.
Adjective
bounceable (comparative more bounceable, superlative most bounceable)
- Able to be bounced.
- (slang, obsolete) Boastful.
- 1867, The Savage-Club Papers (volume 1, page 57)
- to those who are unacquainted with his writings, and of whom I will not say worse luck, for it might appear bounceable,
- 1881, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch (volumes 80-81, page 234)
- That Boy's a bit too bounceable; he'll find / Swelling brings dizziness.
Derived terms
References
- (boastful): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary