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Definition of 'flounce'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) flounce
to go with impatient or impetuous, exaggerated movements.

2. flounce
to move self-consciously and in a conspicuous manner.

3. flounce
to throw the body about spasmodically; flounder.

4. (n.) flounce
an act or instance of flouncing; a flouncing movement.

5. (n.) flounce
a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached along one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming.

6. (v.t.) flounce
to trim with flounces.

Etymology: (1665–75; alter. of frounce pleat, fold, wrinkle, ME < OF fronce < Frankish)

Definition of 'flounce'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) frill, flounce, ruffle, furbelow
a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

2. (verb) flounce
the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions

3. (verb) flounce
walk emphatically

Definition of 'flounce'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) flounce
the act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body

2. (noun) flounce
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

3. (verb) flounce
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

4. (verb) flounce
to deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock

Translation of 'flounce'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (usually without, ~awayetc) to move (away) in anger, impatience etc She flounced out of the room.
Afrikaans: uitstorm	Arabic: يَنْدَفِع غاضِبا	Bulgarian: буйствам
Brazilian: precipitar-se	Czech: naštvaně odejít	German: erregt stürmen
Danish: marchere; spankulere	Greek: στριφογυρίζω από ανυπομον	Spanish: salir/entrar airadamente
Estonian: (välja) marssima	Farsi: با عصبانیت حرکت کردن	Finnish: marssia
French: sortir/entrer (dans un mo	Hebrew: לַנוּעַ בְּקוֹצֶר רוּחַ	Hindi: आवेश में चल देना
Croatian: izjuriti (iz sobe), hodat	Hungarian: kipenderül	Indonesian: pergi dengan marah
Icelandic: strunsa, rigsa	Italian: precipitarsi	Japanese: ぷいと飛び出す
Korean: 신경질이 나거나 화가 나서) 뛰어나가다(뛰어들	Lithuanian: išdumti, išrūkti	Latvian: drāzties; mesties
Malay: pergi dengan marah	Dutch: stormen	Norwegian: stryke/bruse ut av
Polish: wypaść, wybiec	Persian: با عصبانیت حرکت کردن	Pashto: په شدت او چابكى سره تاوېد
Portuguese: precipitar-se	Romanian: a intra/a ieşi nervos	Russian: бросаться
Slovak: nahnevane odísť	Slovenian: planiti	Serbian: odjuriti
Swedish: rusa, störta	Thai: กระฟัดกระเฟียด	Turkish: fırlamak, atılmak
Taiwanese: 憤然/不耐煩地離去	Ukrainian: кидатися; вискочити	Urdu: غصے میں بھڑک کر چلے جانا
Vietnamese: đi hối hả	Chinese: 突然离去
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