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Entry 4 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Flounce

/flouns/ · IPA /flaʊns/
01 v. i. 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 mir…
imp. & p. p. Flounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouncing
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    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.
    “To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us.” — Barrow.
    “With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves.” — Addison.
02 n. The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
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    The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
03 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, an…
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    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.
04 v. t. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
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    To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.