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springy

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Marked by resilience; elastic.
  • adjective Abounding in freshwater springs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Having elasticity like that of a spring; elastic; light: as, springy steel; a springy step.
  • noun Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy: as, springy land.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic
  • adjective Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after being bent, compressed, stretched, etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of movements) light and confidently active
  • adjective elastic; rebounds readily

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

spring +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Having just spent a gorgeous weekend in springy, sunny Vankie, I was thrilled to visit Craig's List to discover my dream roomie:

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • Having just spent a gorgeous weekend in springy, sunny Vankie, I was thrilled to visit Craig's List to discover my dream roomie:

    Found it! 2005

  • The meatballs are kind of springy, as Jason noted.

    Flatiron Lunch: Forget the Pizza, Maffei’s Baked Stuffed Fish is Where It’s At | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

  • At some point, I might switch us to something more emphatically "springy," but I have yet to see the flowers emerging with any real force here in Philadelphia...

    TN Banner 2007

  • At some point, I might switch us to something more emphatically "springy," but I have yet to see the flowers emerging with any real force here in Philadelphia...

    November 2007 2007

  • I love visiting your page because it's so "springy" and happy.

    One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2006

  • The spheroid interior was heavily and uniformly padded with some kind of springy orange plastic.

    Time Trial Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1983

  • He twisted and turned it experimentally, encountered a kind of springy resistance, and pressed harder.

    The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

  • The fruit should be so dry that when a handful of slices is pressed together firmly into a ball the slices will be "springy" enough to separate at once upon being released from the hand.

    Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray

  • They are neither elegant nor graceful, but easy, "springy" vehicles, which, having neither sides nor top covers, give unimpeded views, and are excellent for sight seeing, though not precisely the thing for rainy weather.

    Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"

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