flounce

flounce has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• v. i.. To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
• n.. The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
• n.. An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
• v. t.. To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
• n.. the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
• n.. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
• v.. walk emphatically