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Altogether he had a rakish, unsettled look, and a bounceable way of talking which made him the prominent person in company.

From The Queen of Hearts by Collins, Wilkie

“A bit cocky and bounceable at first, till you found that I wouldn’t stand it, and then you were both civil.”

From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.

The professor was hoisted up on deck, and when they had all changed their clothes, and the great shark-killer had shipped two new wooden pins, he grew quite as bounceable as ever.

From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Hemyng, Bracebridge