How to pronounce jounce

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What jounce means

verb

To bounce and jolt roughly up and down

In a sentence: The old truck jounced along the bumpy dirt road, shaking our snacks all over the seat.

Where it comes from: It comes from a late Middle English word meaning to jolt hard. Before that no one knows, but it may imitate the sound of bumping.

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