flounce (flouns)

i.; pret. and pp. flounced, ppr. flouncing. [ME. not found; ef. obs. fluce (Nares), flounce; You neither fret, nor fume, nor flounce . Swift . 2281 Nay, 'tis in vain to flounce -and discompose yourself and your Dre . Steele , Grief A-la-Mode, ii. 1. After delivering herself of her speech, she flounced back again to her seat, mighty proud of the exploit. Greville, Memoirs, Feb. 25, 1831. flouncel (flouns), n. [ flouren and Mediterranean seas. (6) In the eastern United States, the common flounder is the Pseudopleuronectes america nus or the Paralichthys oblong us, here figured. (c) In California, and along the western coast generally, the Pleu ronectes stell at us is known as the flounder. In other parts of the world colonized by the English the name is transferred to some common representative of the family Pleu ronectida. But now men on deyntees so hem delyte, To fede hem vpon the fysches lyte, As flowndres , perches, and such pykyng ware. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 224. 2. A tool whose edge is used to stretch the IMG:content-1529.png:[blocks in formation] flounce2 (flouns), v. t.; pret. and pp. Aounced, ppr. flouncing. [ Women, insolent, and self-care 'd, Curl'd, scented, furbelow'd, and flounc'd around. Cowper , Expostulation, 1. 51. 2. To surround with something arranged like a flounce. [Rare.] He has... stifled ponds, and flounced himself with flowering shrubs and Kent fences. Walpole , Letters, II. 170.