bounce | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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(noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounciness |
(noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bouncing |
bunce | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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dunce | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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flounce | (noun) the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions | - |
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(noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: frill, furbelow, ruffle |
fluidounce | (noun) a United States unit of capacity or volume equal to 1.804 cubic inches | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
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(noun) a British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to 8 fluid drams or 28.416 cubic centimeters (1.734 cubic inches) | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
jounce | (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, shock |
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launce | (noun) very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches | Synonyms: sand eel, sand lance, sand launce |
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ounce | (noun) large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur | Synonyms: Panthera uncia, snow leopard |
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(noun) a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams | Synonyms: oz. |
(noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound | Synonyms: apothecaries' ounce, troy ounce |
pounce | (noun) the act of pouncing | - |
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