springy
Origin of springy
1Other words for springy
Other words from springy
- spring·i·ly, adverb
- spring·i·ness, noun
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How to use springy in a sentence
Occasionally deer by twos and threes bounded springily away, white flags waving.
Desert Conquest | A. M. ChisholmThen the "drug" caught her, and she seesawed again up into the wind and rode springily.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman | Albert Walter TolmanYou felt that, were you to place your hand on her shoulder, she would resist springily, like a young bough in the woods.
True and Other Stories | George Parsons LathropMonroe still ran springily and with the jauntiness which betokened the practised runner.
The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men | Francis William Rolt-WheelerHe went up the steps lightly, springily, with a sort of exuberant joy in the mere action.
The House of Fulfilment | George Madden Martin
British Dictionary definitions for springy
/ (ˈsprɪŋɪ) /
possessing or characterized by resilience or bounce
(of a place) having many wells or springs of water
Derived forms of springy
- springily, adverb
- springiness, noun
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