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.
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- 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.