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jounce, v.|dʒaʊns|
[Of obscure origin: it has been compared to jaunce v., which it partly approaches in use, but with which it can scarcely be phonetically connected. Several words in -ounce, as bounce, flounce, pounce, trounce, are of obscure history.]
1. intr. To move violently up and down, to fall heavily against something; to bump, bounce, jolt; to go along with a heavy jolting pace.
c1440Promp. Parv. 265/2 Iowncynge, or grete vngentylle mevynge [v.rr. iownsynge..ioyuncynge], strepitus. 1711S. Sewall Diary 11 Aug. (1879) II. 321 One of the Porters stoop'd to take up his Hat, by which means the..Head of the Coffin jounc'd upon the Ground. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Jounce, to bounce, thump, and jolt, as rough riders are wont to do. 1885Howells Silas Lapham (1891) I. 60 The mare jounced easily along. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar i. viii, The lawyer was jouncing along towards the house with a lantern in his hand. 1888Atlantic Monthly Feb. 267 [The blue jay] stamped his feet, and jounced (the only word to describe a certain raising and violent dropping of the body without lifting the feet). 1967C. O. Skinner Madame Sarah viii. 171 The train..swayed, rocked, jounced and hustled a couple of passengers from their seats. 1969New Yorker 12 Apr. 118/3 The drill, which is a percussive one, jounces up and down. 1971D. E. Westlake I gave at the Office (1972) 55 The two trucks jouncing off along the narrow dirt road through the swamp.
2. trans. To jolt, bump, or shake up and down, as by rough riding; to give (a person) a shaking.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxiv. (1887) 96 Set him..vpon a trotting iade to iounce him thoroughly or vpon a lame hakney to make him exercise his feete, when his courser failes him. 1834New Monthly Mag. XLII. 314 You have become a little used to the bouncings and jouncings that greet your first attempts to go to sleep. 1893Chicago Advance 31 Aug., At every step of the [camel's] long, ungainly legs the rider is bounced and jounced around and up and down. 1897R. Kipling Capt. Cour. 209 We weren't runnin' for a record. Harvey Cheyne's wife..were sick back, an' we didn't want to jounce her. 1902H. L. Wilson Spenders xiv. 148 Then I jounced Hank. 1910N.Y. Even. Post 4 Aug. (Th.), The raft was jounced about so severely that it broke its anchorages. 1972Time 17 Apr. 40/3 The rover's seat belts have been redesigned to anchor passengers more comfortably during the jouncing ride in the moon's weak gravity.
Hence jounce n., a bump, a jolt, in which a thing is raised and allowed to fall by its weight; a jolting pace.
1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Jounce, a jolt or shake, A jouncing trot, a hard rough trot. Norf. 1813Sir J. Cullum Hist. Hawsted (ed. 2) Vocab. (E.D.S.), Jounce, a joult, a shock, or shaking bout. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xvii, She made straight for a bench..sat herself down upon it with a jounce. 1892Harper's Mag. Aug. 341/1 You saw large individuals of the leisure class toiling it in their daily foot-jounce. 1893F. B. Zincke Wherstead 261 A jolt, or a shake, is a ‘jounce’. |