bounce – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to bounce
Participle: bounced
Gerund: bouncing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	bounce
we	Let's bounce
you	bounce

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

have sexual intercourse

boom-boom, rut, schlong, shag, copulate, copulate with

to engage in sexual intercourse

bang, bauf, beat, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bop, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, dance, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frig, fuck, get busy, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, make it, make love, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, play, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, stick, tumble, wango tango

instance of propelling oneself into air

jump, leap, pounce

to depart; to separate from

beat it, book, bug off, bugger off, buzz off, cut one's stick, dash, depart, duck out, exit, get away, get out, go, go away, go out, leave, make tracks, move on, namous, part, piss off, pull up stakes, quit, remove, run along, set forth, set off, set out, sling one's hook, split, start, start out, take leave, take off, take one's leave, take wing

jump

spring, leap, boomerang, rebound

hop

bound, jump, skip, jolt, bob, jounce

fire

dismiss, boot, eject, oust

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1225, bounsen "to thump, hit," perhaps from Du. bonzen "to beat, thump," or Low Ger. bunsen, or onomatopoeic; sense probably influenced by bound (v.). Sense of "to bounce like a ball" is from 1519; the rubber check sense is from 1927. Bouncing "vigorous, big" is from 1579. First record of bouncer "a bully" is from 1833; in the saloon sense, it dates from 1883.

" 'The Bouncer' is merely the English 'chucker out'. When liberty verges on license and gaiety on wanton delirium, the Bouncer selects the gayest of the gay, and -- bounces him!" ["London Daily News," July 26, 1883]

2. From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
3. Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”). See: Dutch 'bonken', Frisian, Saterlandic 'bumzje', Dutch 'bonzen', German, old spelling 'bumsen'.

Verbs referencing "bounce"

Finnish with old forms bounssata.

Sample Sentences