flounce

verb

/flaʊns/

[intransitive] (disapproving)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they flounce	/flaʊns/ /flaʊns/
he / she / it flounces	/ˈflaʊnsɪz/ /ˈflaʊnsɪz/
past simple flounced	/flaʊnst/ /flaʊnst/
past participle flounced	/flaʊnst/ /flaʊnst/
-ing form flouncing	/ˈflaʊnsɪŋ/ /ˈflaʊnsɪŋ/

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+ adv./prep. 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.
- He tossed his head and flounced away.
Word Originverb mid 16th cent.: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian flunsa ‘hurry’, or perhaps symbolic, like bounce or pounce.

flounce

noun

/flaʊns/

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a piece of cloth that is sewn around the edge of a skirt, dress, curtain, etc.
- little girls dressed in frills and flounces
[usually singular] (disapproving) 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.

Word Originnoun sense 2 mid 16th cent.: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian flunsa ‘hurry’, or perhaps symbolic, like bounce or pounce. noun sense 1 early 18th cent.: from an alteration of obsolete frounce ‘a fold or pleat’, from Old French fronce, of Germanic origin; related to ruck in the sense ‘ruck something up’.