springy

Definizione monolingua

springy

springy (comparative springier, superlative springiest)

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

   The soft peat was springy under her feet.

   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 5

     We had now reachd the closest point of union; but when he backened to come on the fiercer, as if I had been actuated by a fear of losing him, in the height of my fury I twisted my legs round his naked loins, the flesh of which, so firm, so springy to the touch, quiverd again under the pressure

Definizione dizionario springy

elastico

Altri significati:

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