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flounce

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1. flounce - Noun

2. flounce - Verb

Meaning

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.

The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.

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.

To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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[Re Annabelle] ...she is an old maid already. But the bright-eyed flounce with which she sits down and slides her way to the center of the table in the booth suggests that she is still hopeful, still a player in whatever the game is. John Updike

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