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Definition: Bouncing Bet
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
\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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