Flounce

Quick meaning: Flounce is a verb meaning To move in a bouncy, exaggerated manner.

Meaning

To move in a bouncy, exaggerated manner.

More Meanings

1. To depart in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself.
2. (sewing) To decorate with a flounce.
3. (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
4. The act of flouncing; a dramatic departure.
5. A row of corrugations, skin folds, or spines, on the hemipenis of a snake.
6. (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.

Example Sentences

To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.

After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.

'Oh certainly,' retorted Tinette impudently, as she flounced out of the room.

With his broad fins and forky tail he laves / The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.

Word Forms

• flounces
• flouncing
• flounced

Synonyms for flounce

Depending on context, synonyms include ruffle, frill, furbelow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frill, ruffle, furbelow, trim, floof, flit.

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