Flounce
Flounce , intransitive verb
[Compare 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.
With his broad fins and forky tail he laves
The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves.
Flounce , noun
The act of flouncing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
Flounce , noun
[Compare German flaus, flausch, a tuft of wool or hair; akin to vliess, English fleece; or perh. corrupted from 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.
Flounce , transitive verb
To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.