Synonyms of the word flounce


FLOUNCEADORNMENT - FRILL - FURBELOW - GAIT - RUFFLE - WALK

flounce

  • v. To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
  • v. (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
  • v. To decorate with a flounce.
  • v. To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
  • n. (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.W.
  • n. The act of flouncing.

adornment

  • n. A decoration; that which adorns.
  • n. The act of decorating.

frill

  • n. A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
  • n. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
  • n. A luxury.
  • n. Something extraneous added for effect.
  • v. (transitive) To make into a frill.
  • v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
  • v. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To shake or shiver as with cold.

furbelow

  • n. A ruffle, frill or flounce on clothing.
  • n. A decorative piece of fabric, usually gathered or pleated.
  • n. A small, showy ornamentation.
  • v. (transitive) To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament.

gait

  • n. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
  • n. (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
  • v. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

ruffle

  • n. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
  • n. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
  • n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
  • n. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine…
  • v. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
  • v. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
  • v. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
  • v. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
  • v. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
  • v. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
  • v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
  • v. To throw together in a disorderly manner.

walk

  • v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
  • v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
  • v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  • v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  • v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  • v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
  • v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  • v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
  • v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
  • v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
  • v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
  • v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
  • n. A trip made by walking.
  • n. A distance walked.
  • n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
  • n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
  • n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
  • n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
  • n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
  • n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
  • n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
  • n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
  • n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
  • n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

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