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▪ I. flouncing, vbl. n.1|ˈflaʊnsɪŋ|
[f. flounce v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. flounce.
1601Deacon & Walker Answ. to Darel 190 The gallant..keepes a flouncing and frisking about. 1679–80Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (1878) 213 What wth y⊇ flounsing of y⊇ hors and my own endeavors I soone was free. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xliv. 133 He turned Tail on us, and with great Flouncings, made towards the Shore. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 245 To prevent his flouncing, they cut off the tail with an axe. 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 10 A little floundering and flouncing in deep bottomless seas of speculation.
▪ II. flouncing, vbl. n.2|ˈflaʊnsɪŋ|
[f. flounce v.2 + -ing1.]
a. The action of putting a flounce to a garment.
b. concr. A flounce; also, the material of which flounces are made.
1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iv, I do not know whether such flouncing and shredding is becoming even in the rich. 1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys II. 53 The pink muslin was..too dressy, perhaps, with its four little flouncings. 1873― Other Girls v. 97 She tossed a long flouncing over her sewing-table.
fig.1891Month LXXIII. 247 Those who merely dabble in good works may find time..to deck themselves out in such flouncings of vanity.
▪ III. flouncing, ppl. a.|ˈflaʊnsɪŋ|
[f. flounce v. + -ing2.]
That flounces: said chiefly of animals, esp. aquatic animals; plunging, tossing.
1700Blackmore Job 179 Canst thou stand angling on the banks of Nile..And thro the flood the flouncing monster draw? 1708Prior Epil. to Smith's Phædra & Hippol. 15 Six flouncing Flanders mares. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vi, Hearing the roof of a crazy coach groan..beneath the flouncing weights of a dozen ponderous passengers. 1837Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes I. 330 Why beatest thou the sea with flouncing oars?
fig.1830Examiner 790/1 The heroine of this flouncing trumpery, yclept a tragedy. |