jounce

[jouns]

verb (used with or without object)

jounced, jouncing 

1. to move joltingly or roughly up and down; bounce.

noun

1. a jouncing movement.

jounce

/ dʒaʊns /

verb

1. to shake or jolt or cause to shake or jolt; bounce

noun

1. a jolting movement; shake; bump

Word History and Origins

Origin of jounce¹

1400–50; late Middle English; apparently blend of joll to bump (now obsolete) and bounce

Word History and Origins

Origin of jounce¹

C15: probably a blend of dialect joll to bump + _bounce

Example Sentences

“I want to see your bosoms jouncing during fellowship,” he commands a member of his flock.

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Over the coulee burst Rooster Jim, jouncing astride his new Indian motorcycle.

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A chunk of flaming timber jounced down a sharply angled slope, smacked onto a two-lane road and hurtled into a thicket below, igniting brush along the way.

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We have a few seconds of excruciating video from the jouncing camera strapped to a police officer’s uniform.

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Meet The Harry Kane Team, led by a striker who traumatised City’s central defenders, jouncing and grappling, always looking to spin away and dig out one of those God‑level diagonal passes.

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