Flouncy

Quick meaning: Flouncy is an adjective meaning Moving with a flounce (“a bouncy, exaggerated manner; an act of departing in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself”).

Meaning

Moving with a flounce (“a bouncy, exaggerated manner; an act of departing in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself”).

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Calling attention; flashy, showy; also, elaborate; fancy.
2. (sewing) Of a garment, etc.: having a flounce (“strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge”) or flounces; gathered and pleated.

Example Sentences

Mrs. Dozer is also assiduous, but flouncy; and brings with her sudden draughts, and goes away again leaving doors open, which I get up and close, using language as I do so.

And, later, when I married Francisco and replaced the McBride like a pair of baggy old knickers with his much frillier, flouncier surname, I couldn't help but marvel at my lucky escape.

FLAT CAP […] A conservative but quietly manly choice, this round cap with a still, barely visible brim blends with almost any look. Its more outlandish, flouncier cousin is the newsboy.

So it was that poor, fat Mrs. Berman sat on her sofa this Wednesday night with a large wild hat on, congested as to the face, flouncy and flighty as to the feet, and trying to pretend that she was smoking a Russian cigarette.

Word Forms

• flouncier
• flounciest
• flouncey

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flouncey, drapey, beflounced, pleatlike, poufy, ruffled.

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