Meaning of Trounce | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
2. A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
   British, dialectal
3. A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.
   British, dialectal

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Examples

“He sprang on his prey with a pounce, / And he gave it a jerk and a trounce; / Then crunched up its bones / On the grass or the stones, / This carnivoristicous Ounce, / 'Ticous Ounce! / This carnivoristicous Ounce!”

“She could hear the maid beating the pillows—a trounce for each—and tossing them into a pile where they fell with a plump.”

“In the nick of time he lassoed with a trounce / the low-down villains who had stubbed our toes.”

“[...] [Harris] Wofford's campaign, headed by James Carville and concentrating on a need for national health insurance, was a trounce and stunning upset.”

“An' what a trounce it's bin! I declare to goodness I'm as out o' wynt as an owd pair o' ballis, wi' walkin so far.”

“Sec a trounce we've hed ower t' fells!”

Such a trounce we've had over the fells!

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