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swag | bounce |

As nouns the difference between swag and bounce

is that swag is scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass or swag can be while bounce is a change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.

As a verb bounce is

to change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.

swag

English

Etymology 1

Probably from (etyl)

Verb

(swagg)
  • (intransitive, and, transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.
  • To droop; to sag.
  • * Palsgrave
  • I swag' as a fat person's belly ' swaggeth as he goeth.
  • To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 29, author=Cathy Horyn, title=In Paris, a Nod to Old Masters, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loop of draped fabric.
  • * 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
  • He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
  • A low point or depression in land; especially , a place where water collects.
  • * 1902', D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", ''The American Practitioner and News'', ' 34 : 182.
  • Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag' the water from the well in question would become muddy After the water in the ' swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    (swagger).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
  • * 2009 , Mark Anthony Archer, Exile , page 119
  • Now this dude got swag , and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!”

    Etymology 3

    From British thieves? slang.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) The booty of a burglar or thief; a boodle.
  • * 1838 , :
  • “It?s all arranged about bringing off the swag , is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’}}
  • * 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, “They Can Get It For You BETTER Than Wholesale”, New York Magazine , page 38
  • He was on his way to call on other dealers to check out their swag and to see if he could trade away some of his leftover odds and ends.
  • (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions.
  • * 2011 , Mark Henry, Battle of the Network Zombies
  • “Make sure to take some swag on your way out!” I called.
    He stooped a bit in mid-trot and snatched a small gold bag out of the basket at the door. The contents were mostly shit, a few drink tickets to the Well of Souls, VIP status at Convent, that sort of thing.
  • (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
  • (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable in to an integral backpack.
  • (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
  • * 2010 August 31, " Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener]", [[w:The New Zealand Herald, The New Zealand Herald] :
  • New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women?s hockey World Cup match.
    Derived terms
    * swaggie * swagman

    Verb

  • (Australia) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
  • * 1880 , James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia , page 259,
  • He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.
  • * 1976 , Pembroke Arts Club, The Anglo-Welsh Review , page 158,
  • That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.
  • * 2006 , , Issue 23, page 3,
  • The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day?s swagging .
  • * 2011 , Penelope Debelle, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC , page 21,
  • Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went swagging together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.
    Derived terms
    * swag it

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • ; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
  • I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.

    Anagrams

    *

    bounce

    English

    (wikipedia bounce)

    Verb

    (bounc)
  • To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
  • The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
  • To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
  • He bounces nervously on his chair.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.}}
  • To cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
  • He bounced the child on his knee.
  • To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
  • She bounced into the room.
  • To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
  • We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced .
  • (informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
  • He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
  • (slang) To leave.
  • Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce .
  • (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
  • (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular English) (sometimes employing the preposition with ) To have sexual intercourse.
  • (air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
  • The squadron was bounced north of the town.
  • (electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset
  • See if it helps to bounce the router.
  • (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
  • What’s your new email address – the old one bounces .
    The girl in the bar told me her address is thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address bounced back to me.
  • (aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
  • The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
  • (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
  • (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Out bounced the mastiff.
  • (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
  • Synonyms

    * (change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) bounce back, rebound * (move quickly up and down) bob

    Derived terms

    * bounceable * bounce back, bounceback * bouncedown * bouncer * bounce rate * bouncing * bouncy * debounce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 9, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , passage=Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.}}
  • A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
  • An email return with any error.
  • The sack, licensing.
  • A bang, boom.
  • * 1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
  • I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
  • A drink based on brandy(w).
  • * , chapter=6
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
  • A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
  • * Dryden
  • The bounce burst open the door.
  • Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
  • (Johnson)
    (De Quincey)
  • Scyllium catulus , a European dogfish.
  • A genre of New Orleans music.
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) Drugs.
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) Swagger.
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) A 'good' beat.
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) A talent for leaping.
  • Synonyms

    * (change of direction of motion after hitting an obstacle) rebound * (movement up and down) bob, bobbing (repeated), bouncing (repeated) * (talent for leaping) ups, mad ups

    Derived terms

    * bouncy * on the bounce English ergative verbs