1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict. Bounce, a person well or fashionably
drest is said to be a rank bounce.
Verb.—1. To boast; bluster; hector; bully; blow up.
1633. Fletcher, Nt. Walkers, IV., i. I doe so whirle her to the
Counsellors’ chambers ... and bounce her for more money.
1698. Ward, London Spy, pt. XVIII., p. 428. With lies he tells his
Bloody Feats, And Bounces like a Bully.
1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5 ed.). Bounce (v.), to swagger, boast,
crack, stump, or pretend to great matters.
1749. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 3 May (1833), vol. II., p. 374. The
Lords had four tickets a-piece, and each Commoner at first but two,
till the Speaker bounced and obtained a third.
1760. Colman, Polly Honeycombe, in wks. (1777) IV., 55. Nay, nay,
old gentleman, no bouncing; you’re mistaken in your man, sir!
1859. H. Kingsley, Geoffrey Hamlyn, ch. v. ‘He’ll be drinking at
all the places coming along to get his courage up to bounce me.’
1883. Daily News, July 26, p. 4, col. 8. To bounce is simply to
prevail on persons whose mirth interferes with the general
enjoyment to withdraw from society which they embarrass rather than
adorn.