Wednesday word: flounce

[trellia-chan.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the missed weeks!

flounce: [flouns]

verb:

1. To move or go in jerky, exhaggerated, bouncy motions, often out of anger.

2. To fling the body about, to flounder.

noun:

1. An act of flouncing, a flouncing movement.

2. A strip of materal pleated and attached at one ege with the other edge left loose and hanging, such as on a skirt, curtain, or slipcover.

Origin of the verb and first noun: First known use 1535-1545. Origin obscure, possibly from Norwegian, flunsa, to hurry.

Origin of the secound noun: First known use, 1665, from obsolete French frounce, to gather in folds.

Comments

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

3. To act like an idiot (in some social manner) and then delete your post, thereby trying to eliminate all evidence of said faux pas.

[trellia-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh ho, I missed this one!! I guess it's a good idea to check Urban Dictionary too!

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I have been known (especially when I was a teenager) to flounce out of the room.