jaunce
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 6
Definition of jaunce
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- To prance; to frolic.
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verb
- To prance; to frolic.
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To jolt or shake.
“catch my death with jauncing up and down!”
noun
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A jaunt.
“Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I!”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English jouncen, perhaps from Old French jancer (“to jolt, jog”), from North Germanic, related to Swedish ganta (“to sport, romp, jest, play the fool”), from Old Norse ganta(sk), of uncertain origin, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape, yawn”). More at jaunt. Perhaps influenced by bounce.
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