Flounce

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A strip of decorative, usually gathered or pleated material attached by one edge, as on a garment or curtain.
  • v. To trim with a strip or strips of gathered or pleated material.
  • verb-intransitive. To move in a lively or bouncy manner: The children flounced around the room in their costumes.
  • verb-intransitive. To move with exaggerated or affected motions: flounced petulantly out of the house.
  • verb-intransitive. To move clumsily; flounder.
  • n. The act or motion of flouncing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
  • v. : To flounder; to make spastic motions.
  • v. To decorate with a flounce.
  • v. To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
  • n. A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
  • n. The act of flouncing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. 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. To deck with a flounce or flounces.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make abrupt or agitated movements with the limbs and body; turn or twist as with sudden petulance or impatience; move with flings or turns, as if in displeasure or annoyance: as, to flounce out of a room.
  • n. A sudden fling or turn, as of the body.
  • n. A deep ruffle; a strip of any material used to decorate a garment, especially a skirt near the bottom, gathered or plaited at one edge, and loose and floating at the other, the gathered edge being sewed to the garment.
  • To deck with flounces: as, to flounce a petticoat or a gown.
  • To surround with something arranged like a flounce.
  • n. In saddlery, a covering for a pistol-holster, either of leather or bearskin.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
  • n. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
  • v. walk emphatically
  • Verb Form
    flounced    flounces    flouncing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gait    walk   
    Cross Reference
    rush    jerk   
    Form
    flounced    flouncing    flouncy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flounder    furbelow   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    announce    bounce    denounce    mispronounce    ounce    pounce    pronounce    renounce    trounce