Flounce

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aÊŠns

Full definition of flounce

Verb

1. To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
2. (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
• BarrowTo flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.
• AddisonWith his broad fins and forky tail he laves
  The rising surge, and flounces in the waves.
3. To decorate with a flounce.
4. To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.
• 2002-09-09, PButler111, Re: OT - Sept. 11th?, You got your ass kicked and instead of admitting you might have made a mistake, you flounced.
• 2012-08-07, Gaby Hinsliff, The lessons of Louise Mensch's departure? There are none, But love Mensch or hate her, don't buy the line that she merely got bored and flounced: for whatever else she achieved in politics, she was never exactly stuck for ways to make it interesting.

Noun

1. (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
2. The act of flouncing.

Derived terms

• flouncy