flounce

Meanings

1. To move in a bouncy, exaggerated manner.
2. To depart in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself.
3. To flounder; to make spastic motions.
4. To decorate with a flounce.

1. A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
2. The act of flouncing; a dramatic departure.
3. A row of corrugations, skin folds, or spines, on the hemipenis of a snake.

Etymology

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian flunsa (“hurry”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Or, perhaps formed on the pattern of pounce, bounce.