Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to jounce
Participle: jounced
Gerund: jouncing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | jounce |
| you | jounce |
| he;she;it | jounces |
| we | jounce |
| you | jounce |
| they | jounce |
Perfect
| I | have jounced |
| you | have jounced |
| he;she;it | has jounced |
| we | have jounced |
| you | have jounced |
| they | have jounced |
Past
| I | jounced |
| you | jounced |
| he;she;it | jounced |
| we | jounced |
| you | jounced |
| they | jounced |
Pluperfect
| I | had jounced |
| you | had jounced |
| he;she;it | had jounced |
| we | had jounced |
| you | had jounced |
| they | had jounced |
Future
| I | will jounce |
| you | will jounce |
| he;she;it | will jounce |
| we | will jounce |
| you | will jounce |
| they | will jounce |
Future Perfect
| I | will have jounced |
| you | will have jounced |
| he;she;it | will have jounced |
| we | will have jounced |
| you | will have jounced |
| they | will have jounced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | jounce |
| you | jounce |
| he;she;it | jounce |
| we | jounce |
| you | jounce |
| they | jounce |
Perfect
| I | have jounced |
| you | have jounced |
| he;she;it | have jounced |
| we | have jounced |
| you | have jounced |
| they | have jounced |
Imperfect
| I | jounced |
| you | jounced |
| he;she;it | jounced |
| we | jounced |
| you | jounced |
| they | jounced |
Pluperfect
| I | had jounced |
| you | had jounced |
| he;she;it | had jounced |
| we | had jounced |
| you | had jounced |
| they | had jounced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would jounce |
| you | would jounce |
| he;she;it | would jounce |
| we | would jounce |
| you | would jounce |
| they | would jounce |
Perfect
| I | would have jounced |
| you | would have jounced |
| he;she;it | would have jounced |
| we | would have jounced |
| you | would have jounced |
| they | would have jounced |
Imperative
| you | jounce |
| we | Let's jounce |
| you | jounce |
Verbs conjugated like 'jounce'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'jounce'
bounce,
dounce,
jaunce,
pounce,
daunce,
enounce,
flounce,
frounce,
haunce,
joyne,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The verb is derived from Late Middle English *jouncen (“to jolt violently”) (evidenced by jouncinge (“violent jolting movement”)); further etymology unknown, possibly imitative.
2. The noun is probably derived from the verb as it is attested later.
Sample Sentences
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If any vvillbe ſo vvilfull as to denie Riding to be an exerciſe and that a great one, and fitteſt alſo for greateſt perſonages, ſet him either vpon a trotting iade to iounſe him thoroughly or vpon a lame hakney to make him exerciſe his feete, vvhen his courſer failes him. [1581, Richard Mulcaster, “Of Riding”, in Positions wherin Those Primitive Circvmstances be Examined, which are Necessarie for the Training Vp of Children, either for Skill in Their Booke, or Health in Their Bodie. […], London: […] Thomas Vautrollier for Thomas Chare [i.e., Chard], →OCLC, pages 95–96:]
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[T]hat air feller, what dooze he do, but he jounces me up on that air plaguy crupper and fetches me back here full split, you see, and rides over everything, and makes everybody get out o' the way, […] [1828, John Neal, chapter VI, in Rachel Dyer: A North American Story, Portland, Me.: Shirley and Hyde, →OCLC, pages 79–80:]
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Send these nice, white, clean shipping cases of honey to a commission man, without any instruction whatever, and he will have the genius and liberality to slap them upon a dray, jounce them to his store, rub them around and over an old, dirty floor, sell a part of it for less than you expected, fail to pay for it until he sells the other part, which he will do after six months or a year, then he will remit, provided the debt has not yet got so old that it is outlawed or he does not "bust up" in business in the mean time. [1890 June 21 (date written), James Heddon, “From the Hive to the Honey Market”, in The Bee-keepers’ Review, volume III, number 7, Flint, Mich.: W. Z. Hutchinson, published 10 July 1890, →OCLC, page 125, column 2:]
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Harvey Cheyne's wife, she were sick back, an' we didn't want to jounce her. [1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, chapter X, in “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC, page 256:]
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I ask you if one, having a drawn sword in one hand and its scabbard in the other, jounceth the scabbard—is it to impede the sword? [1909, “[Letters of Obscure Men (Part I).] [Letter] XLV: Arnold von Tongern, Magister Noster of Holy Scripture, Sendeth Greeting to Magister Ortwin Gratius.”, in Francis Griffin Stokes, transl., Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum: […], London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 379:]
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So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker's damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin. [1921, Harvey Wickham, “Introducing the Garden of Eden”, in The Clue of the Primrose Petal, New York, N.Y.: Edward J. Clode, →OCLC, page 9:]
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Near-synonym: jostle
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The lawyer was jouncing along towards the house with a lantern in his hand. [1887, Hall Caine, chapter VIII, in A Son of Hagar: A Romance of Our Time […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Retro Me, Sathana), page 156:]
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She felt herself swooping, then she was lying on the bed beside Gowan, on her back, jouncing to the dying chatter of the shucks. [1931 February 9, William Faulkner, chapter VIII, in Sanctuary (The Modern Library of the World’s Best Books; no. 61), New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1962, →OCLC, page 74:]
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The bed jounced when Mannie sat down on it where the medic had been sitting. [1971 March and May, Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, chapter 1, in The Lathe of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1971, →ISBN, page 4:]
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Hundreds of angry coal miners pushed toward the locked gate at Shaft 3, shouting and cursing as they neared the mine's Chinese managers, who understood neither the English nor the Tonga words of the mob. As the workers butted up against the fence, the bosses grew more fearful and finally two fired their shotguns. The Zambian miners scrambled in terror. Bodies pivoted, jounced and stumbled. Boston Munakazela did not know he was hit until he suddenly fell over and saw the blood on his chest and arms. [2010 November 20, Barry Bearak, “Zambia uneasily balances Chinese investment and workers’ resentment”, in The New York Times (Africa section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2025:]