verb, noun
verb [V] [usually +adv./prep.] (written) to move somewhere in a way that draws attention to yourself, for example because you are angry or upset:
She flounced out of the room.
Part of speech: noun
1 a strip of fabric that is sewn around the edge of a skirt, dress, curtain, etc:
little girls dressed in frills and flounces
2 (written) a quick and exaggerated movement that you make when you are angry or want people to notice you:
She left the room with a flounce.
flounced adjective:
a flounced skirt
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for flounce is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is flounce a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, flounce is tagged as noun.
Does flounce appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — flounce appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
