flounce
Word family nounflouncingverbflounceadjectiveflouncy
flounce1 /flaʊns/ verb [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] ANGRYto walk in a quick determined way without looking at people because you are angry 怒气冲冲地走 She flounced out of the room. 她愤怒地冲出房间。
ldoce_110_bflounce2 noun 2 [singular]ANGRY a way of walking in a quick determined way without looking at people, because you are angry 气冲冲走路的样子 She walked off with a flounce. 她怒气冲冲地走掉了。
flounce• In the morning, she rose early and dressed in her plainest clothes, flounces and frills had no place in business.• One wore a tattered summer dress in pink spotted cotton with double flounces, the other a pinafore over a checked blouse.• Alas, the tempo tweaking didn't end with Mordkovitch's final flounce off the platform.• Her skirt lacked hoops or flounces.• When the lady is laid out, it is in a mob-cap and an embroidered headband, and neatly pressed flounces.• Holding my eye, Caduta parted the flounces of her shirt.• She wears a white childlike party frock, edged with lace, stiffened with gauze, decorated with flounces and bows. Origin flounce1 (1500-1600) Probably from a Scandinavian language
flounce2 (1700-1800) frounce “fold, plait” ((14-19 centuries)) (influenced by
→ FLOUNCE1), from
Old French fronce