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verb flaʊnsflaʊns no object, with adverbial of direction Go or move in an exaggeratedly impatient or angry manner. （不耐烦或生气地）急走，急动，猛冲 he stood up in a fury and flounced out 他气得一跃而起，冲了出去。 Example sentencesExamples - Any self-respecting 17-year-old vegetarian would have flounced away in disgust, but instead my response marked the first flicker that my veggie years may be short-lived.
- Ash looks at me, a hint of concern on his face while I choke on cookie and watch Elly stand up and flounce dramatically from the room.
- Adrian nodded and watched her friend swiftly flounce out of the room.
- She flounced a few inches away, then began tearing strips off the sheet.
- Friesinger, who had earlier flounced out of the German training camp and moved into a hotel because of the intensity of the media pressure, consoled herself with a gold in the 1,500m, her favourite distance.
- Matilda rebuffs this suggestion before flouncing off in a huff, leaving Henry certain that he's hit the nail on the head!
- After an exchange of pleasantries the ambassador told Derry who our man was and which paper he represented, upon which Lord Wallpaper turned abruptly and flounced off.
- She gets a pouty face on and flounces over to Jacobs.
- ‘Don't be a pillock,’ snapped Nicol and flounced off.
- With a sarcastic ‘thanks’, she flounces off the bus.
- Making an angry noise, she turned and flounced out to the carriage.
- She flounces home and stands outside of Lyn's house crying.
- The Rovers Return, being a soap opera pub, has seen its fair share of fisticuffs and flouncing out.
- And there is no use flouncing off to the rival Pontin's - it has found a new lease of life hosting indie festivals, such as All Tomorrow's Parties.
- I didn't know what last time was, but it had to have been bad because Kara's face colored and she seemed at a loss for words, picking to flounce off in a fury instead.
- Mr Posh was so miffed he flounced into training, lanky hair pushed back by an Alice band to show off his scar to the world, wearing the sort of sulk most three-year-olds would consider melodramatic.
- Tia watched the younger twin flounce out of the room as the older one came in.
- As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through.
- She flounces off and leaves them all looking awkward.
- As the mischievous Adele, Sarah Asmar stomped or flounced around the stage, tossing off her numerous high notes as though they were nothing.
Synonyms storm, stride angrily, sweep, stomp, stamp, march, strut, stalk
noun flaʊnsflaʊns An exaggerated action intended to express annoyance or impatience. 暴跳，怒冲冲（表达气愤或不耐烦的夸张动作） she left the room with a flounce 她怒气冲冲地离开了房间。 Example sentencesExamples - Seryna's distaste, while initially borne from Visbec's flounce and flirtatious mannerisms, had grown with an infatuation for Naoise.
OriginMid 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian flunsa 'hurry', or perhaps symbolic, like bounce or pounce. Rhymesannounce, bounce, denounce, fluid ounce, jounce, mispronounce, ounce, pounce, pronounce, renounce, trounce noun flaʊnsflaʊns A wide ornamental strip of material gathered and sewn to a skirt or dress; a frill. （衣裙的）荷叶边；皱边 Example sentencesExamples - She did look a bit odd; she wore a slightly torn red dress, with puffy sleeves and flounces starting at her hips and reaching down to the floor.
- Compared to the sophisticated aubergine walls and sparkling amethyst chandeliers of the dining room, the bedrooms have much more of a country-house feel, with lots of flounces and frills.
- The theme of ‘charming and hippie’ is highlighted in floral designs and flounces which go together with boots and wide waistbelts.
- Puffed sleeves and flounces convey a playful, romantic look.
- The door swung open to reveal an auburn-haired teenager, wearing an embroidered, crimson gown, with dozens of flounces, a flattering waist and neck-line with matching scowl.
- Ruffle necklines are big too, as well as fluted sleeves, hem flounces and ruched side panels.
- Playfully tugging on her brown ponytail, he called for a strapless, mint green gown, a long tulle with many flounces of lace and sheer fabric.
- However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
- It was a deep blue - rich and velvety, with several flounces and cream lace cuffs.
- Add drama with flounces, lace and fringe in steamy matador looks.
- Using seams, pleating and sculpting, Gaultier sent out silhouettes that traced the outline of the body then ended in dramatic flounces, drapes or pleats.
- They built a corset for me and added crinoline and flounces, and no one was the wiser - until the footbridge scene, the only love scene in the film.
- Collars and cuffs are an antidote to those frills and flounces.
- Performances of femininity are all about adding on - breasts, makeup, sparkly boas, frills, and flounces.
- The silhouette here is hourglass, with strong shoulders and hems flaring in sculptural flounces.
- Dancing lessons and ballet get gently ragged, as with a teacher dressed entirely in pink flounces.
- It was fairly simple: having no frills or flounces, yet it was that simplicity that made the dress so appealing.
- There's an excess of flounces and frou-frou as swirling skirts, bangles, baubles, ribbons and bow trims come out to play.
- Miss Howitt's dress was in the height of fashion; blue silk spencer over a white round dress with several flounces at the hem, complemented by a yellow paisley shawl draped over her shoulders.
- While Tisci focused on black and oyster, Lacroix used a vast array of colors and along with the rich details of beads, laces, corsets, flounces and satin.
Synonyms frill, ruffle, ruff, peplum, jabot, furbelow, ruche, ruching, gather, tuck, fringe archaic purfle
verb flaʊnsflaʊns as adjective flouncedTrimmed with a flounce or flounces. 镶荷叶边 镶有荷叶边的裙子。 Example sentencesExamples - Women's attire consists of solid-colored or polka-dot dresses with tightly fitted bodices and flounced skirts and sleeves.
- She tucked the shirt into the frilly underskirt, worn under the wine colored flounced gypsy skirt.
- Featuring four increasing layers of illusion netting and a flounced chapel length train, this gown is beautified by an all over floral embroidered and beaded pattern.
- The Zebra's stripes are revealed by pulling strips from a white flounced dress.
- Try dressing your room with wicker baskets, and look for flounced or ruffled curtains, tablecloths and bedding.
Derivativesadjectiveflouncier, flounciest The performances (dolled up with all manner of flouncy costumes and props) are at least slightly theatrical, but the history lesson remains dull and awkward throughout. Example sentencesExamples - Rag trade insiders say designs will go retro once more, taking their inspiration from the 1970s and the New Romantics of the 1980s, with frills and flouncy, folk-inspired long skirts.
- Pleated, flowered, straight or flouncy, ruffled, and ruched - even the more detailed designs have become commonplace to the point where we don't want to have anything to do with them.
- The designers decided that the new trend was ‘High Femininity’: girly, pretty, flouncy and frilly clothes.
- This season, the designer has added even more romantic details such as layers, mixes of textures, floral patterns, slinky fabrics, and turns out a surprising array of flouncy skirts, skinny jeans and flippy dresses.
OriginEarly 18th century: from an alteration of obsolete frounce 'a fold or pleat', from Old French fronce, of Germanic origin; related to ruck2. verbflounsflaʊns 1no object, with adverbial of direction Go or move in an exaggeratedly impatient or angry manner. （不耐烦或生气地）急走，急动，猛冲 he stood up in a fury and flounced out 他气得一跃而起，冲了出去。 Example sentencesExamples - She flounces off and leaves them all looking awkward.
- Tia watched the younger twin flounce out of the room as the older one came in.
- After an exchange of pleasantries the ambassador told Derry who our man was and which paper he represented, upon which Lord Wallpaper turned abruptly and flounced off.
- She gets a pouty face on and flounces over to Jacobs.
- Matilda rebuffs this suggestion before flouncing off in a huff, leaving Henry certain that he's hit the nail on the head!
- And there is no use flouncing off to the rival Pontin's - it has found a new lease of life hosting indie festivals, such as All Tomorrow's Parties.
- Adrian nodded and watched her friend swiftly flounce out of the room.
- Ash looks at me, a hint of concern on his face while I choke on cookie and watch Elly stand up and flounce dramatically from the room.
- Making an angry noise, she turned and flounced out to the carriage.
- She flounces home and stands outside of Lyn's house crying.
- I didn't know what last time was, but it had to have been bad because Kara's face colored and she seemed at a loss for words, picking to flounce off in a fury instead.
- With a sarcastic ‘thanks’, she flounces off the bus.
- Mr Posh was so miffed he flounced into training, lanky hair pushed back by an Alice band to show off his scar to the world, wearing the sort of sulk most three-year-olds would consider melodramatic.
- The Rovers Return, being a soap opera pub, has seen its fair share of fisticuffs and flouncing out.
- ‘Don't be a pillock,’ snapped Nicol and flounced off.
- As the others flounced and stamped their way through the jungle, Blackburn's equable temper won through.
- Friesinger, who had earlier flounced out of the German training camp and moved into a hotel because of the intensity of the media pressure, consoled herself with a gold in the 1,500m, her favourite distance.
- She flounced a few inches away, then began tearing strips off the sheet.
- Any self-respecting 17-year-old vegetarian would have flounced away in disgust, but instead my response marked the first flicker that my veggie years may be short-lived.
- As the mischievous Adele, Sarah Asmar stomped or flounced around the stage, tossing off her numerous high notes as though they were nothing.
Synonyms storm, stride angrily, sweep, stomp, stamp, march, strut, stalk - 1.1 Move with exaggerated motions.
she flounced around, playing the tart and flirting Example sentencesExamples - She flounces regally off the train, affording glimpses of a waist bulging from a too-tight waistband.
- ‘Great,’ says Janae with a sultry smile, and flounces back inside.
- As he flounces out of the office to greet me, he is surrounded by an entourage of men, any one of whom could be the one with £350m in the bank.
- Back at the Highcliff, the bars were awash with pretty young things - lobbyists and special advisers, mostly - flouncing around in pastel shades and heavy eye make-up.
- I took off at great speed, swooshing and swirling my way down hill (creative jargon for flailing and flouncing about), only to hear great yelps approaching from the rear.
- They watched her flounce back into the Ballroom, her dress's skirt swishing around her hips.
- I get freezing cold, sit beside the fire then flounce up to my room.
- We were absolutely over-the-top saccharine sarcastic sweet to Tom and the Weasel, and then flounced off to a booth that the hot bouncer was holding for us.
- The ever-charming Lorraine Jarrod flounced into my office in her best accusatory manner and informed me that Alex was in jail.
- The bell rings and she grabs her bag and flounces out, disregarding Miss.
- ‘I've got to have a fag,’ she replies, flouncing out.
- In between all the whining and flouncing around, she manages to fit in some of the worst acting I've seen in a long time - check out the heartfelt, climactic speech at the end of the film.
- She flounced her way over to him and smiled a petit little winning smile.
- He flounces round the kitchen, sings at the top of his voice, flirts with his contestants and his food - and drools over it.
- All of a sudden, a whiff of vanilla rolls in the door, and in flounces Gemma, in a green-and-black plaid skirt and a green Flogging Molly tee.
- Jessica flounces up, gathering up all the popular people.
- That was all work, apart from occasionally flouncing into the kitchen and making myself some coffee.
- She flounced her way back to the head of the group, joining with Polina in a conversation of some sort.
- Like an old trouper who cannot resist the limelight, Lewis flounced out of a special parade of champions, saying he could not support sport as long as there were drug cover-ups going on.
nounflounsflaʊns An exaggerated action, typically intended to express one's annoyance or impatience. 暴跳，怒冲冲（表达气愤或不耐烦的夸张动作） she left the room with a flounce 她怒气冲冲地离开了房间。 Example sentencesExamples - Seryna's distaste, while initially borne from Visbec's flounce and flirtatious mannerisms, had grown with an infatuation for Naoise.
OriginMid 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian flunsa ‘hurry’, or perhaps symbolic, like bounce or pounce. nounflounsflaʊns A wide ornamental strip of material gathered and sewn to a piece of fabric, typically on a skirt or dress; a frill. （衣裙的）荷叶边；皱边 Example sentencesExamples - Compared to the sophisticated aubergine walls and sparkling amethyst chandeliers of the dining room, the bedrooms have much more of a country-house feel, with lots of flounces and frills.
- Using seams, pleating and sculpting, Gaultier sent out silhouettes that traced the outline of the body then ended in dramatic flounces, drapes or pleats.
- The door swung open to reveal an auburn-haired teenager, wearing an embroidered, crimson gown, with dozens of flounces, a flattering waist and neck-line with matching scowl.
- Ruffle necklines are big too, as well as fluted sleeves, hem flounces and ruched side panels.
- However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
- Miss Howitt's dress was in the height of fashion; blue silk spencer over a white round dress with several flounces at the hem, complemented by a yellow paisley shawl draped over her shoulders.
- They built a corset for me and added crinoline and flounces, and no one was the wiser - until the footbridge scene, the only love scene in the film.
- While Tisci focused on black and oyster, Lacroix used a vast array of colors and along with the rich details of beads, laces, corsets, flounces and satin.
- It was a deep blue - rich and velvety, with several flounces and cream lace cuffs.
- There's an excess of flounces and frou-frou as swirling skirts, bangles, baubles, ribbons and bow trims come out to play.
- Puffed sleeves and flounces convey a playful, romantic look.
- Add drama with flounces, lace and fringe in steamy matador looks.
- Playfully tugging on her brown ponytail, he called for a strapless, mint green gown, a long tulle with many flounces of lace and sheer fabric.
- Collars and cuffs are an antidote to those frills and flounces.
- The silhouette here is hourglass, with strong shoulders and hems flaring in sculptural flounces.
- She did look a bit odd; she wore a slightly torn red dress, with puffy sleeves and flounces starting at her hips and reaching down to the floor.
- The theme of ‘charming and hippie’ is highlighted in floral designs and flounces which go together with boots and wide waistbelts.
- It was fairly simple: having no frills or flounces, yet it was that simplicity that made the dress so appealing.
- Performances of femininity are all about adding on - breasts, makeup, sparkly boas, frills, and flounces.
- Dancing lessons and ballet get gently ragged, as with a teacher dressed entirely in pink flounces.
Synonyms frill, ruffle, ruff, peplum, jabot, furbelow, ruche, ruching, gather, tuck, fringe
verbflounsflaʊns as adjective flouncedTrimmed with a flounce or flounces. 镶荷叶边 镶有荷叶边的裙子。 Example sentencesExamples - She tucked the shirt into the frilly underskirt, worn under the wine colored flounced gypsy skirt.
- The Zebra's stripes are revealed by pulling strips from a white flounced dress.
- Try dressing your room with wicker baskets, and look for flounced or ruffled curtains, tablecloths and bedding.
- Women's attire consists of solid-colored or polka-dot dresses with tightly fitted bodices and flounced skirts and sleeves.
- Featuring four increasing layers of illusion netting and a flounced chapel length train, this gown is beautified by an all over floral embroidered and beaded pattern.
OriginEarly 18th century: from an alteration of obsolete frounce ‘a fold or pleat’, from Old French fronce, of Germanic origin; related to ruck. |