Bouncy vs Merry - What's the difference?
bouncy | merry |
Easily bounced
Lively, exuberant, energetic
Jolly and full of high spirits
* Shakespeare
Festive and full of fun and laughter
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
Brisk
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
* Spenser
(euphemistic) drunk; tipsy
As an adjective bouncy
is easily bounced.As a proper noun merry is
originally a nickname for a merry person.bouncy
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Adjective
(er)- You can't play tennis without a bouncy ball.
- She's a very bouncy character.
Derived terms
* bouncy castlemerry
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- We had a very merry Christmas.
- I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
- f I have the chance, I will make our worshipful Sheriff pay right well for that which he hath done to me. Maybe I may bring him some time into Sherwood Forest and have him to a right merry feast with us.
- Everyone was merry at the party.
- The play moved along at a merry pace.
- a merry jest
- merry wind and weather
- Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.