Flounce

Definition: Flounce

Flounce

Noun

1. A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.

2. The act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions.

Verb

1. Walk emphatically.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flounce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonyms: Flounce

Agitation

Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm.

Edge

Frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp.

Fold

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Leap

Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Crosswords: Flounce

Pond near Flounce Rock. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

View from Flounce Rock looking out into the clouds. Credit: Tim Haller.

View of Flounce Rock. Credit: Tim Haller.

Expressions using "flounce": flounce about ♦ flounce away ♦ flounce in ♦ flounce off ♦ flounce out ♦ flounce out of. Additional references.

Albanian

turr (inrush, pounce, rampage), kthim i trupit rrëmbimthi, kthim i koke, kthej kokën, kthehem befas (whirl round), kthehem (backtrack, bend, come back, get back, go back, lurch, move back, redound, rejoin, return, set, slew, start back, take turns, turn aside, turn back, turn over, turn round, veer, wheel), dantellë (flouncing, lace). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كشكش (frill, ruffle), ‏هدب (frill, fringe, hem), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏حركة تبرم, ‏تقدم متعثرا (flounder, wallop, wallow), ‏تخبط (blunder, flounder, wallow), ‏سخط (disaffection, discontent, exasperation, grumpiness, indignation, irritation, malcontent), ‏إنتفض (quiver, shake, shiver, tremble, twitch), ‏إنتفاض (shaking, tremble, twitch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

украсявам с волани, кокорча се, волан (frill, furbelow, ruffle, skirt, steering wheel, wheel), мятане (cast, fling, hurl, jactation, jactitation, projection, shy, throw, toss), мятам се (flop about, lash), перча се (parade, prance, prank, rodomontade, roister, ruffle, splurge, swagger, swash). (various references)

Czech

poskakovat (Bob, bounce, cavort, gambol, hop, hop about, scamper about, skip). (various references)

French

volant (fly, flywheel), s'agiter (flop), marcher avec difficulté, indignation, impatience, colère (flare), agitation (flop, flurry, fluster, flutter). (various references)

German

volant (valance). (various references)

Greek 

κράσπεδο (curb, edging), κινούμαι νευρικώσ, κινούμαι νευρικά (fidget), κινούμαι ανυπόμονα, κινούμαι ανυπομονώσ, παρυφή (selvage), τινάζομαι (dash, flop). (various references)

Hebrew 

תנודה (fluctuation, lurch, migration, motion, movement, oscillation, quivering, vibration), רוגז (angry, dudgeon, exasperation, huff, irate, sour, vexation). (various references)

Hungarian

ugrándozás (gambol, rollick, hop), küszködés (coping), hirtelen mozdulat (animated gesture), hánykolódás, fickándozás (caper, cavorting), ficánkolás (frolic), csapkodás (chop, flap, thrash). (various references)

Indonesian

menyentak, lipatan (crease, fold, pleat, quill). (various references)

Italian

falpalà, scatto (burst, click, dash, fit, impulse, latch, spirt, sprint, spurt, unit), balzo (bolt, bounce, bound, dart, dash, dodge, hop, jump, leap, lope, skip, spring, start), balza (crag, frill). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

フライ返し (spatula, woman). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フラウンス . (various references)

Manx

trippyl, snuggal (bob down, bobbing, butting, dig with elbow, nod, push), snug (butt of animal, poke, toss of head), cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, pervert, screw, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn, twist, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring). (various references)

Pig Latin

ounceflay.(various references)

Portuguese

folho (shir, shirr), safanão (bob), sacudidela (backlash, flip, flirt, hitch, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, pluck, rumble-tumble, shake, wag, waggle, whisk), movimento brusco (jolt, rumble-tumble), espernear (flounder, kick, struggle, writhe), debrum (binding, fringe, hem), debruar (befringe, bind, border, fringe, hem, overcast, skirt, welt), debater-se (flounder, struggle), agitar (stir, wave). (various references)

Romanian

volan (flyer, frill, furbelow, wheel), smuciturã (hitch, jerk, jolt, tug, twitch, wrench, wring), se zbate (flounder, struggle), se smuci (hitch), se repezi (burst into, dart, fling, fly at, hurl oneself, make a dash at smth., make for, plough into, rush, start, swoop upon), pune volane, mişcare bruscã (dart, dash, fling, flirt, hitch). (various references)

Russian 

оборка (frill, furbelow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

volan (steering wheel), napraviti karner, karner (ruffle). (various references)

Spanish

salir enfadado, moverse torpemente (barge about). (various references)

Swedish

volang (furbelow). (various references)

Turkish

farbala ile süslemek, farbala (flute, frill, furbelow, ruffle), fırlayıp yürümek, fırfır (fall, frill, furbelow, ruffle), volan (flywheel, frill), sabırsızca davranmak, azametle yürümek (stalk, sweep), öfke ile fırlamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

ривок (chuck, dart, dash, jerk, spirt, sprint, spurt, wrest, yank), оборка (frill, furbelow, ruffle), метатися (thrash about, thresh about), закривати (bar, blench, break up, close, close down, close up, fasten up, obturate, occlude, occult, shut), прикрашати оборками (frill). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự đi hối hả sự khoa tay múa chân. (various references)

Apamea testacea, Luperina testacea, Palluperina testacea. (various references)

fronce. (various references)

frounce. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flounce": flounced, flounces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flounce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flaunce, flaune, flence, floun, flouncy, flounk, folinic, foune, Froinech. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: clone, felon, ounce, uncle.

-3 letters: clef, clon, clue, cole, cone, enol, floc, floe, flue, foul, fuel, leno, lone, luce, lune, noel, once, unco.

-4 letters: cel, col, con, cue, ecu, elf, eon, fen, feu, flu, foe, fon, fou, fun, leu, ole, one.

-5 letters: ef, el, en, lo, ne, no, nu, oe, of, on, un.

+1 letter: flounced, flounces.

+2 letters: confluent, confluxes, flouncier.

+3 letters: cinquefoil, confluence, confluents, confusedly, flocculent, flounciest, nonfluency.

+4 letters: cinquefoils, confabulate, confluences, counterflow, counterfoil, fluorescein, fluorescent, fluorescing.

+5 letters: colorfulness, confabulated, confabulates, confoundedly, counterflows, counterfoils, fluoresceins, fluorescence, fluorescents, forcefulness, functionless, furunculoses, genuflection, infectiously, infelicitous, liquefaction, nonfluencies, noninfluence, scornfulness, voicefulness.