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flaunty, a.|ˈflɔːntɪ|
[f. flaunt v. + -y1.]
1. a. Of persons: Given to display or show, ostentatious, vain. b. Of things: Showy, gaudy.
1796J. Owen Trav. Europe II. 260 These flaunty caps are of no mean expence. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 585 A boy in female attire, indescribably flaunty and gaudy. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 272 ‘There's a flaunty sort of young woman at the poteen shop there.’ 1843Ld. Houghton Let. in T. W. Reid Life I. 292 His mind seems somewhat less flaunty. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 872 While your common men..dust the flaunty carpets of the world For kings to walk on.
2. Sc. ‘Capricious, eccentric, unsteady.’ (Jam.).
1821Galt Annals Parish xx. 198 She was a flaunty woman and liked well to give a good-humoured jibe or jeer.
Hence ˈflauntily adv., ˈflauntiness.
1830Examiner 323/2 We like people to..air their gaudiest pretensions bravely and flauntily. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles iii. 24 A woman flauntily dressed..suddenly entered the shop. 1854Blackw. Mag. LXXV. 434 Effeminacy of composition, and flauntiness of colouring. |