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Bouncing Bet
(gcide) | Soapwort \Soap"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family;
-- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in
water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also
Bouncing Bet.
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Bouncing Bet
(gcide) | Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a.
1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
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Many tall and bouncing young ladies. --Thackeray.
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2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." --B. & Fl.
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Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort ({Saponaria
officinalis}). --Harper's Mag.
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bouncing bet
(wn) | bouncing Bet
n 1: plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and
leaves yielding a detergent when bruised [syn: soapwort,
hedge pink, bouncing Bet, bouncing Bess, {Saponaria
officinalis}] |
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Bouncing Bet
(gcide) | Soapwort \Soap"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family;
-- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in
water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also
Bouncing Bet.
[1913 Webster]Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a.
1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
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Many tall and bouncing young ladies. --Thackeray.
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2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." --B. & Fl.
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Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort ({Saponaria
officinalis}). --Harper's Mag.
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bouncing betty
(wn) | bouncing betty
n 1: an antipersonnel land mine |
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