springy

adj

1. That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after being bent, compressed, stretched, etc.

   “The soft peat was springy under her feet.”

   “The hard woods were used for pegging, the soft woods for cradling the load and the springy woods for carrying it.”

   “What returning director Genndy Tartakovsky reveres is animation—and not necessarily the wonders of photorealistic follicle creation or impeccably rendered water, but the kind of gloriously exaggerated movement, the stretchy and springy caricature, that enlivens many classic cartoons.”

   “We had now reach'd the closest point of union; but when he backened to come on the fiercer, as if I had been actuated by a fear of losing him, in the height of my fury I twisted my legs round his naked loins, the flesh of which, so firm, so springy to the touch, quiver'd again under the pressure”

2. Lively; bouncy.

   “Shangrila and Linda is an outstandingly uneven book -- sometimes it's fun and springy, and other times it's irritating and boring.”

   “Every step—a light click of the heel and then a springy step, optimistic, perhaps a bit contemptuous.”

3. Characteristic of the spring season.

   “It was springy weather after Easter, and she wore a pale lavender silk dress with myriad little ruchings down the front, each edged with a narrow band of real lace.”

   “We had a blizzard, a thaw, a spell of springy weather, and James baked me a heart-shaped white clam pizza for Valentine's Day.”

   “After our few brief days of springy weather it surely is a sudden change.”

4. Of land, having many springs (of water).