flounce

[Flounce]

To flounce is to move in an exaggerated, emphatic way, especially if your movement expresses anger or impatience. A young child who doesn't like what's for dinner might stand up and flounce away from the table.

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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.

Noun
the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions

Noun
a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

Verb
walk emphatically


v. i.
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.

n.
The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.

n.
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.

v. t.
To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.


Flounce

Flounce , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flounced (flounst); p. pr. & vb. n. Flouncing .] [Cf. OSw. flunsa to immerge.] 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.
With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves.

Flounce

Flounce , n. The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.

Flounce

Flounce, n. [Cf. G. flaus, flausch, a tuft of wool or hair; akin to vliess, E. fleece; or perh. corrupted fr. rounce.] 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

Flounce, v. t. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

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.

The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.

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.

To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

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