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Definition of Jouncing
1. jounce [v] - See also: jounce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jouncing
Literary usage of Jouncing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on the Development of a Child by Milicent Washburn Shinn (1893)
"In the sixth month, I had once chanced to amuse her by jouncing her up and down
on the ... She liked to have the jouncing violent enough to fling her about, ..."
2. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"—-One gets "a good jouncing " on a rough trotting horse. A lady's feathers on
horseback, would be described as "jouncing about. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"... and jouncing, in tho same sense. See Malone's Supplement, vol. ip 226. How many
words in Shakespeare might be explained in the farmer's kitchen ! ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"53, where another reading for jaunting is jouncing. ... Shak. has: 'Spurred,
galled, and tired by jouncing Bolingbroke,'i e. hard-riding Bolingbroke. ..."
5. Reports of Cases by New York (State). Court of Appeals (1898)
"The jouncing caused by passing over the curb threw him forward on to the pole,
... While striking the manhole caused the accident, jouncing over the curb ..."
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