jouncing
jouncing is the present participle and gerund of jounce.
Meaning of jounce
Verb
jounce (third-person singular simple present jounces, present participle jouncing, simple past and past participle jounced)
- To shake (someone or something) up and down, for example, by driving a vehicle over obstructions or riding a horse roughly; to jolt.
- If any vvillbe ſo vvilfull as to denie Riding to be an exerciſe and that a great one, and fitteſt alſo for greateſt perſonages, ſet him either vpon a trotting iade to iounſe him thoroughly or vpon a lame hakney to make him exerciſe his feete, vvhen his courſer failes him.1581, Richard Mulcaster, “Of Riding”, in Positions wherin Those Primitive Circvmstances be Examined, which are Necessarie for the Training Vp of Children, either for Skill in Their Booke, or Health...
- To move vigorously up and down; to bounce, to bump, to jolt; also, to fall and hit something heavily.
- Near-synonym: jostle
- Synonyms:
- jostle
Noun
jouncing (plural jouncings)
- A motion that jounces.
- Your twitchings and jouncings disturb me excessively.1843, The Knickerbocker, volumes 21-22, page 73
Forms of jouncing
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