Synonyms

jounce

American

[jouns] / dʒaʊns /

verb (used with or without object)

jounced, jouncing

to move joltingly or roughly up and down; bounce.

noun

a jouncing movement.

jounce British

/ dʒaʊns /

verb

to shake or jolt or cause to shake or jolt; bounce

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

a jolting movement; shake; bump

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of jounce

1400–50; late Middle English; apparently blend of joll to bump (now obsolete) and bounce

Example Sentences

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Joe DeAngelo was thick-muscled and dough-faced, with an odd jounce to his gait.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2019

The up-tempo jounce of “Monk’s Dream” and “Criss Cross” has been turned into surface-skimming, 12-tone dashes, with debts to Cage and Stockhausen.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2018

If you’re going to run Graham & Co. one day, Graham tells Pierrepont, “you’ve got to add dynamite and ginger and jounce to your equipment.”

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2014

Every jounce caused pain to shoot through his body.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013

As a fat man, I walked with the foot soldiers so as not to jounce the gestation.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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