Springy

Definition: Springy

Springy

Adjective

1. Rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "springy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Note: Springy \Spring"y\, adjective. [Comparative Springier; superlative Springiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Springy

Crosswords: Springy

Well, fortunately, small boys are extremely springy and elastic. (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• David y Goliat / The Springy, Slingy Sling (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "springy": be springy ♦ springy medium. Additional references.

Albanian

i lakueshëm (declinable, flagellate, flexible, inflective, inflexional, malleable, pliable), elastik (elastic, flexible, limber, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, tensile). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يقظ (alert, awake, awoke, careful, circumspect, jaunty, lively, mindful, napless, observant, on duty, open-eyed, prompt, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide awake), ‏كثير الينابيع, ‏ناعم (cosiness, delicate, downy, fine, gentle, glace, mellow, neat, on velvet, powdery, silken, silky, smooth, soft, squashy, tender, velvet, velvety), ‏نابض بالحركة, ‏زنبركي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

еластичен (distensible, ductile, elastic, pliable, resilient, rubbery, spongy, stretch, stretchy, supple), пружиниращ. (various references)

Czech

pružný (elastic, flexible, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, resilient, rubbery, supple, yielding), jarní (vernal). (various references)

Danish

springy feel (springy feel), elastisk følelse (springy feel). (various references)

Farsi 

فنری (Bouncy, Elastic), قابل ارتجاع (Elastic), سرچشمه وار, جهنده (Hopper, Jumper). (various references)

Finnish

kimmoinen (elastic, resilient), jäntevä (muscular, vigorous). (various references)

French

souple, vivant, qui fait ressort, moelleux, de source, alerte (spry), élastique. (various references)

German

federnd (bouncy, buoyant, elastic, resilient, springily, sprung). (various references)

Greek 

ελαστικόσ (elastic, resilient, rubberry). (various references)

Hebrew 

קפיצי (elastic, whippy). (various references)

Hungarian

ruganyos (elastic, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, supple, to walk with a swing), rugalmas (corky, elastic, flexible, limber, pliant, resilient, stiff, whippy). (various references)

Indonesian

endal (cram, elastic, resilient, stuff). (various references)

Italian

elastico (buoyant, elastic, resilient, rubber band, stretchy, supple, whippy). (various references)

Manx

clistagh (bouncing, bounding, jerky, performing). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingyspray

Portuguese

provido de molas, flexível (bendable, collapsible, deflective, demountable, ductile, flexible, flexile, folding, limber, limp, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, soft, supple, whippy, willowy), elástico (distensible, elastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber band, supple), com nascentes, cheio de nascentes, ágil (able, active, adroit, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, keen, kittenish, light-footed, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, skillful, spry, volant). (various references)

Romanian

elastic (buoyant, ductile, elastic, elastically, extensible, flexibile, rebounding, resilient, supple, tensile, yielding). (various references)

Russian 

упругий (elastic, resilient, spring, tough, whippy, yielding), эластичный (distensible, ductile, elastic, elasticated, non-rigid, rubber-band, spring, stretchy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gibak (double jointed, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple), elastičan (elastic, flexible, resilient). (various references)

Spanish

elástico (elastic, lithe, resilient, rubbery, stretchy). (various references)

Swedish

fjädrande (elastic), elastisk (distensible, elastic, non-rigid, resilient, stretchy). (various references)

Turkish

zıpkın gibi, yaylı (spring, sprung, stringed), yay gibi (archwise), esnek (elastic, flexible, flexile, limber, limp, lithe, loose-jointed, nonrigid, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, responsive, spring, sprung, supple), enerjik (active, beany, brisk, driving, dynamic, energetic, full of beans, ginger, gingery, high pressure, lively, peppy, rustling, vibrant, vigorous, virile, warm blooded, zippy), elastiki, canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy). (various references)

Ukrainian

еластичний (elastic, flexible, non-rigid, resilient, rubbery, stretchy), багатий на джерела, пружний (whippy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

co dãn. (various references)

Misspellings

"Springy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ospringe, Pringi, Sprengel, springa, sprinty, sproingy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: prying, spring, spying.

-2 letters: gipsy, girns, grins, grips, gripy, pings, pirns, prigs, pyins, rings, spiny, spiry, sprig.

-3 letters: gins, gips, girn, grin, grip, gyps, gyri, nips, pigs, ping, pins, piny, pirn, prig, pyin, rigs, ring, rins, rips, sign, sing, snip, spin, spry, yins, yips.

-4 letters: gin, gip, gyp, ins, nip, pig, pin, pis, pry.

+1 letter: spraying.

+2 letters: agrypnias, raspingly, sparingly, springily, syphering.

+3 letters: graspingly, panegyrics, panegyrist, paralysing, pargylines, perigynies, perigynous, phrensying, presignify, pressingly, respraying, sportingly, superlying.

+4 letters: inspiringly, necropsying, panegyrists, pharyngitis, presumingly, promisingly, prophesying, proselyting, resupplying, superhyping, tapestrying, trypsinogen, unsparingly.

+5 letters: appraisingly, depressingly, despairingly, personifying, playwritings, polymerising, redisplaying, scintigraphy, stereotyping, surpassingly, surprisingly, trypsinogens, typewritings, whisperingly.