What's the difference between flounce and flouncing?

Flounce


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
  • (n.) The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
  • (n.) An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
  • (v. t.) To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There might be a report, a few seminars and then a flouncing off, or just a withering away.
  • (2) But as soon as the song was over and Keaton flounced offstage, the awkwardness from her performance was overshadowed by Allen's maybe-son Ronan Farrow , resurfacing some old allegations of sexual abuse by Allen: Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) Missed the Woody Allen tribute - did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?
  • (3) Yelling is the easy option in a fight, like flouncing out and slamming the door.
  • (4) Flouncing out over the sort of benefits cuts that he himself had been enforcing, or trying to enforce, ever since arriving in cabinet?
  • (5) Those former shadow ministers who have stomped off in a huff and a flounce make a serious error by deserting their posts.
  • (6) In 1997, shortly before she acquired notoriety by flouncing – drunk and cursing – from a live TV show about the Turner prize, and two years before she failed to win a Turner with My Bed , I interviewed Tracey Emin over coffee at her council flat in Waterloo about the nocturnal and nutritional ups and downs of her weekend.
  • (7) Those who flounce out on Jeremy Corbyn will not escape blame if Labour crashes | Polly Toynbee Read more This has not always been the friendliest of arenas for Labour leaders – Tony Blair got an enthusiastic pitchforking in his last speech here, while Ed Miliband was heckled in 2011.
  • (8) She walks back to her chair and looks around, an expression of utter amazement on her face, while Shvedova flounces off.
  • (9) In spring, cherry trees toss extravagant flounces of blossom.
  • (10) Britney Spears cut short an interview in tears; where-are-they-now mainstay Preston flounced out when Amstell mocked his wife Chantelle Houghton .
  • (11) Several years after Alan Partridge flounced off the small screen, Steve Coogan's best-loved character was judged the best scripted comedy for the Sky Atlantic special Welcome to the Places of My Life – marking possibly the first time a tour of Norfolk landmarks has met with such comic acclaim.
  • (12) Flouncing out of the United Kingdom like this, and anyway it's not as if you're decamping to the Mediterranean, is it?
  • (13) It's tempting to read this as a sort of corporate-scale flounce, but there are obvious considerations.
  • (14) Pardew’s problem is that, just as Ben Arfa has come to represent a set of ideals and a style of football mislaid when Kevin Keegan last flounced out, the manager is now regarded as emblematic of the entire ills of the Ashley regime.
  • (15) Zevon would have taken gleefully to the role of grizzled, geriatric curmudgeon; his approach to his work always had more in common with a detective or a crime writer than with some flouncing showbiz wannabe.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A silk taffeta Balenciaga dress from 1955, with wired skirt flounces.
  • (17) Publication: Conservative Review Author: When he found himself on the wrong side of Breitbart’s primary-era civil war, the writer Ben Shapiro flounced .
  • (18) And nor is it in our national interest to have a prime minister who, playing to a domestic and Eurosceptic gallery, flounces out of vital summits and thinks that splendid isolation is a sign of strength, when everyone else can see it is really just a sign of weakness.
  • (19) The perfect example of this trend is Al Gore, who flounced off in presidential defeat and grew one.
  • (20) Ukip members love a good feud – and they particularly love the traditional finale, where the arrogant arriviste gets his comeuppance, and flounces off humiliated.

Flouncing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flounce

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There might be a report, a few seminars and then a flouncing off, or just a withering away.
  • (2) But as soon as the song was over and Keaton flounced offstage, the awkwardness from her performance was overshadowed by Allen's maybe-son Ronan Farrow , resurfacing some old allegations of sexual abuse by Allen: Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) Missed the Woody Allen tribute - did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?
  • (3) Yelling is the easy option in a fight, like flouncing out and slamming the door.
  • (4) Flouncing out over the sort of benefits cuts that he himself had been enforcing, or trying to enforce, ever since arriving in cabinet?
  • (5) Those former shadow ministers who have stomped off in a huff and a flounce make a serious error by deserting their posts.
  • (6) In 1997, shortly before she acquired notoriety by flouncing – drunk and cursing – from a live TV show about the Turner prize, and two years before she failed to win a Turner with My Bed , I interviewed Tracey Emin over coffee at her council flat in Waterloo about the nocturnal and nutritional ups and downs of her weekend.
  • (7) Those who flounce out on Jeremy Corbyn will not escape blame if Labour crashes | Polly Toynbee Read more This has not always been the friendliest of arenas for Labour leaders – Tony Blair got an enthusiastic pitchforking in his last speech here, while Ed Miliband was heckled in 2011.
  • (8) She walks back to her chair and looks around, an expression of utter amazement on her face, while Shvedova flounces off.
  • (9) In spring, cherry trees toss extravagant flounces of blossom.
  • (10) Britney Spears cut short an interview in tears; where-are-they-now mainstay Preston flounced out when Amstell mocked his wife Chantelle Houghton .
  • (11) Several years after Alan Partridge flounced off the small screen, Steve Coogan's best-loved character was judged the best scripted comedy for the Sky Atlantic special Welcome to the Places of My Life – marking possibly the first time a tour of Norfolk landmarks has met with such comic acclaim.
  • (12) Flouncing out of the United Kingdom like this, and anyway it's not as if you're decamping to the Mediterranean, is it?
  • (13) It's tempting to read this as a sort of corporate-scale flounce, but there are obvious considerations.
  • (14) Pardew’s problem is that, just as Ben Arfa has come to represent a set of ideals and a style of football mislaid when Kevin Keegan last flounced out, the manager is now regarded as emblematic of the entire ills of the Ashley regime.
  • (15) Zevon would have taken gleefully to the role of grizzled, geriatric curmudgeon; his approach to his work always had more in common with a detective or a crime writer than with some flouncing showbiz wannabe.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A silk taffeta Balenciaga dress from 1955, with wired skirt flounces.
  • (17) Publication: Conservative Review Author: When he found himself on the wrong side of Breitbart’s primary-era civil war, the writer Ben Shapiro flounced .
  • (18) And nor is it in our national interest to have a prime minister who, playing to a domestic and Eurosceptic gallery, flounces out of vital summits and thinks that splendid isolation is a sign of strength, when everyone else can see it is really just a sign of weakness.
  • (19) The perfect example of this trend is Al Gore, who flounced off in presidential defeat and grew one.
  • (20) Ukip members love a good feud – and they particularly love the traditional finale, where the arrogant arriviste gets his comeuppance, and flounces off humiliated.

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