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English → English (gcide) 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. [1913 Webster] Bouncing \Boun"cing\, a. 1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. [1913 Webster] Many tall and bouncing young ladies. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 2. Excessive; big. “A bouncing reckoning.” --B. & Fl. [1913 Webster] Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis ). --Harper's Mag. [1913 Webster]