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5 definitions found 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. 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. t. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as to flounce a petticoat or a frock. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: flounce n 1: a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim [syn: {frill}, {ruffle}, {furbelow}] 2: the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions v : walk emphatically
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