flounce

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To move in a bouncy, exaggerated manner.
2. verb To depart in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself.

   After failing to win the leadership election, he flounced dramatically.

3. verb To flounder; to make spastic motions.
4. verb To decorate with a flounce.
5. noun A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
6. noun The act of flouncing; a dramatic departure.
7. noun A row of corrugations, skin folds, or spines, on the hemipenis of a snake.

Similar words

frill ruffle furbelow trim floof flit flutter flourish flaunt flob

Often followed by

of and out at around in on off to

Word family

flounced flounces flouncing