flounce
verb
[ flaʊns ]
• go or move in an exaggeratedly impatient or angry manner.
• "he stood up in a fury and flounced out"
flounce
noun
• an exaggerated action intended to express annoyance or impatience.
• "she left the room with a flounce"
Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian flunsa ‘hurry’, or perhaps symbolic, like bounce or pounce .
flounce
noun
• a wide ornamental strip of material gathered and sewn to a skirt or dress; a frill.
Similar:
frill,
ruffle,
ruff,
peplum,
jabot,
furbelow,
ruche,
ruching,
gather,
tuck,
fringe,
purfle,
Origin:
early 18th century: from an alteration of obsolete frounce ‘a fold or pleat’, from Old French fronce, of Germanic origin; related to ruck2.
