Word Meanings - FLOUNCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. To flutter and flounce

Additional info about word: FLOUNCE

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. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLOUNCE)

• Flaunt Boast
• vaunt
• flout
• flutter
• flounce
• display
• flourish
• parade
• figure

Related words: (words related to FLOUNCE)

• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• VAUNTER
  One who vaunts; a boaster.
• FLAUNTINGLY
  In a flaunting way.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• FLAUNT
  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• FLOURISHER
  One who flourishes.
• FLOUNCE
  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. To flutter and flounce
• PARADE
  An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private , according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous
• VAUNTFUL
  Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
• BOASTANCE
  Boasting. Chaucer.
• BOASTIVE
  Presumptuous.
• FLUTTERER
  One who, or that which, flutters.
• VAUNT-COURIER
  See SHAK
• FLOUT
  To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton. Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.
• AVAUNTOUR
  A boaster. Chaucer.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.
• DEFIGURE
  To delineate. These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.
• OVERFLUTTER
  To flutter over.
• REFLOURISH
  To flourish again.