springy

English

springy (comparative springier, superlative springiest)

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.
- 1749, John Cleland, “part 5”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:
  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

capable of returning to its original form

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