bouncing bess

What does bouncing bess mean?

bouncing bess means "plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised".

What is another word for bouncing bess?

Close synonyms include soapwort, hedge pink, bouncing Bet, Saponaria officinalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bouncing bess a common word?

bouncing bess is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bouncing bess come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.