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flounce

FLOUNCE, v.i. flouns. [See Flounder.]

1. 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.

You neither fume, not fret, not flounce.

2. To move with jerks or agitation.

FLOUNCE, v.t. To deck with a flounce; as, to flounce a petticoat or frock.

FLOUNCE, n. A narrow piece of cloth sewed to a petticoat, frock or gown, with the lower border loose and spreading. The present is the age of flounces. 1827.



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FLOUNCE, v.i. flouns. [See Flounder.]

1. 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.

You neither fume, not fret, not flounce.

2. To move with jerks or agitation.

FLOUNCE, v.t. To deck with a flounce; as, to flounce a petticoat or frock.

FLOUNCE, n. A narrow piece of cloth sewed to a petticoat, frock or gown, with the lower border loose and spreading. The present is the age of flounces. 1827.


FLOUNCE, n.

A narrow piece of cloth sewed to a petticoat, frock or gown, with the lower border loose and spreading. The present is the age of flounces. 1827.


FLOUNCE, v.i. [flouns; D. plonssen. See Flounder.]

  1. 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. You neither fume, nor fret, nor flounce. Swift.
  2. To move with jerks or agitation.

FLOUNCE, v.t.

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


Flounce
  1. 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.

  2. The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
  3. 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.
  4. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
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Flounce

FLOUNCE, verb intransitive flouns. [See Flounder.]

1. 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.

You neither fume, not fret, not flounce

2. To move with jerks or agitation.

FLOUNCE, verb transitive To deck with a flounce; as, to flounce a petticoat or frock.

FLOUNCE, noun A narrow piece of cloth sewed to a petticoat, frock or gown, with the lower border loose and spreading. The present is the age of flounces. 1827.

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