jounce
/dʒaʊns
/verb
Jolt or bounce: [no object]: the car jounced wildly [with object]: the pilot jounced the ship through turbulence...
- The springs creak, mattress jouncing as he resettles his weight.
- With each step her blond head jounced slightly.
- Cyril stooped and picked up a handful of small pebbles and jounced them in his hand to shake away the loose dust, then the resumed their leisurely walk along the track.
Derivatives
jouncy
Origin
Late Middle English: probably symbolic; compare with bounce.
Rhymes
- Western Australia
- Western Australian
- Western blot
- western bluebird
- western-born
- western brown snake
- Western Cape
- Western Church
- Western Empire
- westerner
- Western European
- Western European Union
- Western Front
- western gorilla
- western gray kangaroo
- western grebe
- western grey kangaroo
- western gull
- western hemisphere
- western hemlock
- westerning
- westernise
- Western Islands
- Western Isle
- Western Isles