flounce : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flounce	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for flounce
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flounce n a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim Synonym(s): frill, flounce, ruffle, furbelow the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions v walk emphatically
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flounce \Flounce\, v. t. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flounce \Flounce\, n. The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flounce \Flounce\, n. [Cf. G. flaus, flausch, a tuft of wool or hair; akin to vliess, E. fleece; or perh. corrupted fr. rounce.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flounce \Flounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flounced} (flounst); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flouncing}.] [Cf. OSw. flunsa to immerge.] 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.