Flounce

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To move in a lively or bouncy manner.
  • intransitive verb. To move with exaggerated or affected motions.
  • intransitive verb. To move clumsily; flounder.
  • noun. The act or motion of flouncing.
  • noun. A strip of decorative, usually gathered or pleated material attached by one edge, as on a garment or curtain.
  • transitive verb. To trim with a strip or strips of gathered or pleated material.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deck with flounces: as, to flounce a petticoat or a gown.
  • To surround with something arranged like a flounce.
  • noun. In saddlery, a covering for a pistol-holster, either of leather or bearskin.
  • noun. 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 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.
  • noun. A sudden fling or turn, as of the body.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. 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 floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
  • noun. 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.
  • transitive verb. To deck with a flounce or flounces.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
  • verb. : To flounder; to make spastic motions.
  • verb. To decorate with a flounce.
  • verb. To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
  • noun. A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
  • noun. The act of flouncing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "The comment by conservatism is my antidrug @ 111 is what is called a flounce, the troll is begging to have this sock-puppet banned."
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    jerk  rush  
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    gait  walk  
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    amble  antic  barge  bead  beading  
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