jounce
Verb

jounce (jounces, present participle jouncing; past and past participle jounced)

  1. (ambitransitive) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.
    • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.51:
      She felt herself swooping, then she was lying on the bed beside Gowan, on her back, jouncing to the dying chatter of the shucks.
Noun

jounce

  1. (physics) The fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time; the time derivative of jerk.



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