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1 definition 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.
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