jounce

American  

[jouns] / dʒaʊns /

verb (used with or without object)

jounced, jouncing

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

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noun

1. a jouncing movement.

jounce British  

/ dʒaʊns /

verb

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

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noun

1. a jolting movement; shake; bump

Etymology

Origin of jounce

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

Example Sentences

Her legs were crossed and she jounced her foot, which was shod in a heeled shoe tied with a ribbon bow at the ankle.

From Literature

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

From Literature

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.

From Seattle Times

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

From Washington Post

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.

From The Guardian