flounce Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
    ruffle; frill; furbelow.
  2. noun the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
  3. verb walk emphatically

WordNet

Flounce intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. OSw. flunsa to immerge.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Flounced present participle & verbal noun Flouncing
Definitions
  1. To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
    To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow.
    With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.
Flounce noun
Definitions
  1. The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
Flounce noun
Etymology
Cf. G. flaus, flausch, a tuft of wool or hair; akin to vliess, E. fleece; or perh. corrupted fr. rounce.
Definitions
  1. An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
Flounce transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

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