flaunt
/flɔːnt/verb
with obj.
1- display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance（为惹人羡慕、敬佩或表示蔑视而）炫耀, 卖弄：
newly rich consumers eager to flaunt their prosperity.
急于摆阔的新富起来的消费者。
1.1
flaunt oneself
dress or behave in a sexually provocative way挑逗性地穿着（或举手投足）。
USAGE
Flaunt and flout may sound similar but they have different meanings. Flaunt means 'display ostentatiously', as in visitors who liked to flaunt their wealth, while flout means 'openly disregard a rule or convention', as in new recruits growing their hair and flouting convention. It is a common error, recorded since around the 1940s, to use flaunt when flout is intended, as in the young woman had been flaunting the rules and regulations. In the Oxford English Corpus the second and third commonest objects of flaunt, after wealth, are law and rules.
短语
if you've got it, flaunt it
- informal one should make a conspicuous and confident show of one's wealth or attributes rather than be modest about them〈非正式〉有了（财富, 品质）, 就要表现出来; 有则显之。
派生词
flaunter
nounflaunty
adjective词源
mid 16th cent.: of unknown origin.