flounce

/flounce/
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flounce

She added a lace flounce to the hem of her skirt.

Definition

  1. Verb:

    • To move or walk in an exaggerated, impatient, or agitated manner, often with jerky or emphatic motions that express annoyance or impatience.
    • To trim or adorn a garment with a gathered or pleated strip of fabric.

  2. Noun:

    • An exaggerated, jerky, or emphatic movement, especially in walking.
    • A strip of fabric, often gathered or pleated, sewn onto a garment as a decorative trim.
Usage
  • Verb (Movement):
    • Use "flounce" to describe a person, especially a child or someone in a temper, walking away with a show of petulance or anger.
    • It is an intransitive verb in this sense (e.g., She flounced out of the room).
  • Verb (Decoration):
    • Use "flounce" as a transitive verb to describe the action of attaching a decorative fabric strip to clothing (e.g., The dress was flounced with lace).
  • Noun (Movement):
    • Use "flounce" to name the act itself (e.g., She left with an angry flounce).
  • Noun (Decoration):
    • Use "flounce" to refer to the decorative fabric strip (e.g., The skirt had a flounce at the hem).
Examples
  • Verb (Movement):
    • After the argument, she turned and flounced out, slamming the door behind her.
    • The toddler flounced over to the corner and sat down with a pout.
  • Verb (Decoration):
    • The designer flounced the sleeves with a delicate silk ruffle.
  • Noun (Movement):
    • With a final, indignant flounce of her skirt, she was gone.
    • His exit was more of a flounce than a walk.
  • Noun (Decoration):
    • The wedding dress featured an elegant flounce along the neckline.
    • She added a lace flounce to the bottom of the curtain.
Advanced Usage
  • "to flounce in/out/off/away": These phrasal constructions are common and emphasize the direction of the agitated movement.
    • He flounced off in a huff when he didn't get his way.
  • The word often carries a connotation of childishness, drama, or affected emotion.
Variants and Related Words
  • Flouncy (adjective): Describing something adorned with flounces or having a full, bouncy shape.
    • She wore a flouncy summer dress.
  • Ruffle (noun/verb): A close synonym for the decorative meaning; a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge. Can also mean to irritate or discompose.
Synonyms
  • Verb (Movement): Storm, strut, sweep, sashay (though often implies a confident, swaying walk, while implies annoyance).
  • Noun (Decoration): Ruffle, frill, furbelow.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Flounce out: To leave a place in a conspicuously angry or dramatic way.
    • She flounced out of the meeting after her idea was rejected.
  • Flounce off: Similar to "flounce out," often used without a specified location.
    • Don't just flounce off; let's talk about this.
Related Idioms
  • While there are no common idioms centered solely on "flounce," the action is often described in phrases like "in a flounce" or "with a flounce," which idiomatically mean "in an agitated, dramatic manner."
    • She did everything with a flounce that week, making her feelings perfectly clear.
flounce

She added a lace flounce to the hem of her skirt.

Noun
  1. the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
  2. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
Verb
  1. walk emphatically

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