jounce

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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Unknown, possibly a portmanteau / blend of jolt + bounce.

Gracious, how the buckboard did jounce up and down!" — The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall, Edward Stratemeyer
She rattled her irons, touched her finger to the bottom of a hot one--tszt--and brought it down on the ironing board with a masterful jounce. — The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
In his new pride, in the love which now made all other matters of life so insignificant, Mayo was afraid of himself; he knew his limitations in the matter of submission; even then he felt a hankering to walk aft and jounce Julius Marston up and down in his hammock chair. — Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, Holman Day

jolt, jar, shock

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