Synonyms for jounce


Grammar : Noun
Spell : jouns
Phonetic Transcription : dÊ’aÊŠns


Définition of jounce

Origin :
  • mid-15c., of unknown origin, perhaps a blend of jump and bounce. Related: Jounced; jouncing. The noun is 1787, from the verb.
  • noun bouncing
Example sentences :
  • In order not to jounce the patient in carrying him the bearers should break step.
  • Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
  • Harvey Cheyne's wife, she were sick back, an' we didn't want to jounce her.
  • Extract from : « "Captains Courageous" » by Rudyard Kipling
  • The wagon began to jounce, too; so they were obliged to go slowly.
  • Extract from : « The Emerald City of Oz » by L. Frank Baum
  • Lumps of lead began to bounce and jounce around in Dawson's stomach.
  • Extract from : « Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal » by Robert Sydney Bowen
  • How it did jounce over occasional stones in the country road!
  • Extract from : « Jewel's Story Book » by Clara Louise Burnham
  • When I think of him and then of myself it gives me a good deal of a jounce.
  • Extract from : « August First » by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray
  • Mijok ran with his vast strides, holding the shield out in front so that the motion of his body would not jounce it.
  • Extract from : « West Of The Sun » by Edgar Pangborn
  • Comanche told me there's one section o' sawedged track that's liable to jounce ye a little.
  • Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling
  • The eight occupants began to "jounce" when opposite the Orde place, and Bobby saw with admiration that this was a "spring bobs."
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Bobby Orde » by Stewart Edward White
  • Nevertheless he gave Jack another cut that made him jounce at a fearful rate up to the back veranda.
  • Extract from : « The Pansy Magazine, April 1886 » by Various

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