Dictionary Entry
flounce
flounce is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2noun
The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
- 3noun
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.
- 4transitive verb
To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
- 5noun
the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
- 6noun
a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- 7verb
walk emphatically
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