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  • adjective superlative form of springy: most springy.

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Examples

  • Actually, it's the birds that seem springiest to me so far.

    Through the pine trees e 2009

  • We made, too, couches of fir-branches -- the springiest and most wholesome of beds in lieu of heather or gall, and laid down our weariness as a soldier would relinquish his knapsack, after John Splendid had bandaged my wounded shoulder.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • There was a dress length of the softest, springiest silk, the kind that creaks when you squeeze it, and it was of the shade that Pearl had seen in her dreams.

    The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • There was a dress length of the softest, springiest silk, the kind that creaks when you squeeze it, and it was of the shade that Pearl had seen in her dreams.

    The Second Chance 1910

  • The springiest wrist, the most supple forearm, the lightest upper arm cannot compensate for the absence of an elastic finger-stroke.

    Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890

  • You know, get a quaking-asp pole that's dry and hasn't been dead too long, it's the lightest and springiest natural fishing rod that grows.

    The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Emerson Hough 1890

  • West of Dover it is the springiest sponge and the creamiest custard that matters.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • The ultra thin 2.0 mm face is the springiest I have felt since the days of my titanium faced R7 XD's.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • Audience, wear your springiest socks and be ready for the amazing and surprising poets who will knock them off with their spontaneous creations.

    BC Bloggers 2009

  • That, despite O'Neal's aging status, can tire even the springiest of chickens.

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

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