Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To move or cause to move with bumps and jolts; bounce.
- noun A rough, jolting movement; a jolt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To jolt; shake, especially by rough riding.
- noun A sudden, violent up-and-down jolting motion; a jolt or shake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A jolt; a shake; a hard trot.
- verb To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
jolt ; toshake , especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions. - noun physics The fourth derivative of the
position vector with respect totime ; the time derivative ofjerk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move up and down repeatedly
- noun a sudden jarring impact
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But it is in going down hill, and leaping from a "jounce" that the skier is at his best.
Healthful Sports for Boys Alfred Rochefort
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The eight occupants began to "jounce" when opposite the Orde place, and Bobby saw with admiration that this was a
The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909
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They hop on anyway, sidesaddle, legs dangling, with baskets, with boxes, with a small kid or whatever, and jounce around town.
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It looks like a left index finger rising slightly toward the sky, and right index and middle fingers coming down to curve around it and jounce up and down.
What sign-language interpreters make of the likes of Lady Gaga and Bon Jovi 2011
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While the bass and the drums undeniably take control of your hips, it's more of a slow and purposeful rock that you'd utilize in an after-hours lounge-type scape, rather than a fast and furious jounce that would be appropriate in a dance club.
Alyssa Miele: Neon Indian, Miniature Tigers, Nite Jewel, the Dom and Prefuse 73 Rock Governor's Island Alyssa Miele 2010
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Were here, announced Jace as the smooth roll of wheels over pavement turned to the jounce of cobblestones.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Were here, announced Jace as the smooth roll of wheels over pavement turned to the jounce of cobblestones.
The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007
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No sense just giving the cart a push and letting it jounce down, when it might crash to flinders at the bottom.
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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Then, stooping, I stepped in between her and the man in the jump seat, feeling the little jounce and sag of the carriage body under my weight.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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To the exact rhythm of our horses 'hoofs and the jounce of our bells, we lined it out: Bells on bobtail ring!
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
yarb commented on the word jounce
The wheel ... leaped and jounced along, and the exasperated pig could only tear after.
- William Steig, Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride
September 29, 2008
Wordplayer commented on the word jounce
Rhymes with and is synonymous with bounce
April 7, 2012
bilby commented on the word jounce
What's with tweets of this ilk:
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Is it some dictionary-riffling army of bots?
March 12, 2013
yarb commented on the word jounce
Looks like normal Twitter fare to me, bilby.
March 13, 2013