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Jounce

verb
(past & past part. jounced; pres. part. jouncing)
1.
Move up and down repeatedly.  Synonym: bounce.






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"Jounce" Quotes from Famous Books



... pick them, and put them up, and market them; and not another blamed thing! Her and her daughter can't be any more company for each other NOW than mud turtle and bird o' paradise. Poor thing, she was looking for a baby to jounce; I think ...
— Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven • Mark Twain

... Billy, to her sorrow, could not catch) Cyril laid down the watch and flung the Teddy bear aside. Then, in very evident despair, he gingerly picked up one of the rumpled rolls of flannel, lace, and linen, and held it straight out before him. After a moment's indecision he began awkwardly to jounce it, teeter it, rock it back and forth, ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter



Words linked to "Jounce" :   travel, bump, blow, go, shock, move, locomote



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